By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
New Jersey moved closer Thursday to barring state pension funds from investing in companies doing business in Iran.
The Assembly voted 78-1 to approve the legislation. The Senate still has not considered the bill.
Democratic Assemblyman Neil Cohen, a bill sponsor, said that the legislation is prompted by Iran's threats to Israel.
"Divesting our finances from entities associated with Iran will send a clear message in the universal language of money that New Jersey will have no part in Iran's pursuit of actions that would lead to Holocaust-like genocide and the complete destruction of a sovereign nation," he said.
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