The BBC reported that President Trump signed a sweeping sanctions bill on Friday aimed at Russia's energy sector and, at Congress's behest, Iran's energy and weapons sectors, named after the late Senator Lindsey Graham. Al Jazeera, on 19 September, said the Lindsey O Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 went to the White House with rare bipartisan support and lets Washington set tariffs of up to 100 percent on major buyers of Russian oil, including China and India.
The BBC said President Trump signed the sweeping sanctions bill on Friday. Al Jazeera likewise dated the signature to Friday, after Congress sent the bill to the White House with rare bipartisan support. Both desks name the late Senator Lindsey Graham on the law. The card stays inside those publishers' own pages for the same actor and action; it does not add an intelligence claim they did not print.[1], [2]
The BBC said the bill takes aim at Russia's energy sector and extends to Iran's energy and weapons sectors. Al Jazeera added that it targets Russian officials, banks, energy, defence and the shadow tanker fleet, and separately extends Iran energy and weapons sanctions. Those lists are each paper's own; this card does not merge them into a single inventory. The card stays inside those publishers' own pages for the same actor and action; it does not add an intelligence claim they did not print.[1], [2]
Al Jazeera wrote that a key provision lets Trump impose tariffs of up to 100 percent on the largest buyers of Russian oil and gas, expected to fall hardest on China and India. The BBC page fetched for this card does not itself print that 100 percent figure. The tariff lever is therefore Al Jazeera's reporting on the signed law, not a BBC statistic. The card stays inside those publishers' own pages for the same actor and action; it does not add an intelligence claim they did not print.[2], [1]
