US Senate Panel Advances Iran Hostage Resolution The House passed a similar resolution in early May, and the full Senate is expected to take up the measure in the coming weeks.   BY: Susan Crabtree    Washington Free Beacon- Oct. 6, 2017- The Senate Foreign Relations Committee Thursday advanced a bipartisan resolution calling on the Iranian government to release unjustly detained U.S. citizens and permanent residents held there and urging the Trump administration to continue to make the issue the 'highest of priorities.' The Senate action comes amid heightened tensions between the two countries with reports that President Trump's national security team has unanimously recommended that he decertify the Iran nuclear deal in an attempt to fix it. To carry out the fixes, Congress would work with the Trump team to apply new pressure on the Iranian regime to rework controversial parts of the nuclear agreement. Critics of the original nuclear dea...