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Page 4A NATION/WORLD (ast Oregonian Tuesday -anuary Obama moves for background checks on more gun sales U.S. sues VW over cheating software in diesel cars WASHINGTON (AP) — The -ustice 'epart- ment sued VoOksZagen on Monday over emis- sions-cheating softZare found in nearOy vehicOes soOd in the 8nit- ed States potentiaOOy exposing the company to biOOions of doOOars in penaOties for cOean air vi- oOations. The civiO compOaint against the German auto- maker ¿Oed on behaOf of the (nvironmentaO Pro- tection Agency in U.S. 'istrict Court in 'etroit aOOeges the company iOOe- gaOOy instaOOed softZare designed to make its “cOean dieseO´ engines pass federaO emissions standards ZhiOe under- going Oaboratory test- ing. The vehicOes then sZitched off those mea- sures in reaO-ZorOd driv- ing conditions speZing harmfuO gases at up to times Zhat is aOOoZed un- der federaO environmen- taO standards. “Car manufacturers that faiO to properOy cer- tify their cars and that defeat emission controO systems breach the pub- Oic trust endanger pubOic heaOth and disadvantage competitors´ -ohn C. Cruden the assistant at- torney generaO for the -ustice 'epartment’s (n- vironment and NaturaO 5esources 'ivision said in a statement. “The United States ZiOO pursue aOO appro- priate remedies against VoOksZagen to redress the vioOations of our na- tion’s cOean air OaZs aO- Oeged in the compOaint´ he said. The company is in the midst of negotiating a massive mandatory recaOO Zith U.S. reguOators and potentiaOOy faces more than biOOion in ¿nes for vioOations of the fed- eraO COean Air Act. By JOSH LEDERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON — Pres- ident Barack Obama moved Monday to expand back- ground checks to cover more ¿rearms soOd at gun shoZs onOine and anyZhere eOse aiming to curb a scourge of gun vioOence despite unyieOd- ing opposition to neZ OaZs in Congress. Obama¶s pOan to broaden background checks forms the centerpiece of a broad- er package of gun controO measures the president pOans to take on his oZn in his ¿- naO year in of¿ce. AOthough Obama can¶t uniOateraOOy change gun OaZs the presi- dent is hoping that bee¿ng up enforcement of existing OaZs can prevent at Oeast some gun deaths in a country rife Zith them. ³This is not going to soOve every vioOent crime in this country´ Obama said. StiOO he added ³It ZiOO potentiaOOy save Oives and spare famiOies the pain of these extraordi- nary Oosses.´ 8nder current OaZ onOy federaOOy Oicensed gun deaO- ers must conduct background checks on buyers but many Zho seOO guns at Àea mar- kets on Zebsites or in other informaO settings don¶t reg- ister as deaOers. Gun controO advocates say that OoophoOe is expOoited to skirt the back- ground check requirement. NoZ the -ustice 'epart- ment¶s Bureau of AOcohoO Tobacco )irearms and (x- pOosives ZiOO issue updated guidance that says the gov- ernment shouOd deem anyone ³in the business´ of seOOing guns to be a deaOer regardOess of Zhere he or she seOOs the guns. To that end the gov- ernment ZiOO consider other factors incOuding hoZ many guns a person seOOs and hoZ frequentOy and Zhether those guns are soOd for a pro¿t. The executive actions on gun controO faOO far short of Zhat Obama and Oikemind- AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais Attorney General Loretta Lynch listens as President Barack Obama speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday during a meeting with law enforcement officials to discuss executive actions the president can take to curb gun violence. Ralph Barrera/Austin American-Statesman via AP Terry Holcomb, Executive Director of Texas Carry hap- pily displays his customized holster as he walks to the Capitol for a rally. Open Carry Texas and Texas Carry held a rally on the south steps of the Texas State Capitol in Austin to celebrate Texas becoming an open carry state. ed OaZmakers attempted to accompOish Zith OegisOation in after a massacre at a Connecticut eOementary schooO that shook the na- tion¶s conscience. (ven stiOO the more modest measures Zere sure to spark OegaO chaO- Oenges from those Zho op- pose any neZ impediments to buying guns. ³We¶re very comfortabOe that the president can OegaO- Oy take these actions´ said Attorney GeneraO /oretta /ynch. Obama’s announcement Zas haiOed by 'emocratic OaZmakers and gun controO groups Oike the Brady Cam- paign to Prevent Gun Vio- Oence Zhich cOaimed Obama Zas making history Zith ³boOd and meaningfuO action´ that ZouOd make aOO Ameri- cans safer. HiOOary COinton at a raOOy in IoZa said she Zas ³so proud´ of Obama but Zarned that the next president couOd easiOy undo his changes. ³I Zon’t Zipe it aZay´ COinton said. But 5epubOicans Zere quick to accuse Obama of gross overreach. Sen Bob Corker 5-Tenn. denounced Obama’s steps as “divisive and detrimentaO to reaO soOu- tions.´ “I ZiOO Zork Zith my coO- Oeagues to respond appropri- ateOy to ensure the Consti- tution is respected´ Corker said. )ar from mandating background checks for aOO gun saOes the neZ guidance stiOO exempts coOOectors and gun hobbyists and the exact de¿nition of Zho must reg- ister as a deaOer and conduct background checks remains exceedingOy vague. Details of the plan The president’s actions will make clear that any- one who’s in the business of selling guns must obtain a license, regardless of whether they sell irearms online or at gun shows, and must conduct back- ground checks on their customers. Currently, only federally licensed gun deal- ers must conduct back- ground checks on buyers. The White House says there’s no threshold number of sales that will trigger the licensure requirement, and that even a few transactions may be enough to establish that a person is engaged in the business of selling guns. • MORE FBI EXAMINERS: The FBI will hire more than an additional 230 exam- iners and other staff to help process background checks. The National In- stant Criminal Background Check System in 2015 received more than 22.2 million background check requests, or an average of more than 63,000 per day. The FBI is also working to modernize NICS, which dates to the 1990s, and to improve the response time for alerting local law enforcement authorities that someone who is dis- qualiied from buying a gun attempted to do so. • LOST AND STOLEN WEAPONS: A rule issued by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives will clarify that a dealer shipping a gun is responsible for notifying law enforcement once it determines it was lost or stolen in transit. • SMART GUN TECH: A presidential memorandum to the departments of Defense, Homeland Se- curity and Justice directs the agencies to conduct or sponsor research into smart gun technology. That technology is aimed at reducing the risk of accidental gun discharges and improving the tracing of lost or stolen irearms. • MENTAL HEALTH: The White House is proposing a $500 million investment to improve mental health care. NATION/WORLD Tuesday -anuary AOOies foOOoZ Saudis in cutting ties Zith Iran By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press 'UBAI United Arab (mir- ates — AOOies of Saudi Arabia foO- OoZed the kingdom’s Oead Mon- day and scaOed back dipOomatic ties to Iran after the ransacking of Saudi dipOomatic missions in the IsOamic 5epubOic vioOence sparked by the Saudi execution of a prominent Shiite cOeric. Sudan and the tiny isOand king- dom of Bahrain said they ZouOd sever ties Zith Iran as Saudi Arabia did Oate Sunday. Within hours the United Arab (mirates announced it ZouOd doZngrade ties to Tehran to the OeveO of the charge d’affaires ZhiOe other na- tions issued statements criticizing Iran. The concerted campaign by Sunni-ruOed Saudi Arabia high- Oights the aggressive stance .ing SaOman and his son 'eputy CroZn Prince Mohammed bin SaOman have adopted in con- fronting Iran a Oongtime regionaO rivaO. “What Ze have seen during the Oast hours is unprecedented ... It shoZs you Saudi Arabia has had enough of Iran and Zants to send a message´ said AbduOkha- Oeq AbduOOah a poOiticaO science professor at (mirates Univer- sity. “This is the Saudis saying: µThere is no Oimit to hoZ far Ze ZiOO go.’´ The standoff began Saturday Zhen Saudi Arabia executed Shi- ite cOeric Sheikh Nimr aO-Nimr and others convicted of terror charges — the Oargest mass ex- ecution carried out by the king- dom since 1980. AO-Nimr a centraO ¿gure in the Arab Spring-inspired pro- tests by Saudi Arabia’s Shiite minority Oong denied advocating vioOence. NeZs of his execution has sparked Shiite protests from Bahrain to Pakistan. In Iran protesters attacked the Saudi (mbassy in Tehran and its consuOate in Mashhad. /ate Sun- day Saudi )oreign Minister AdeO aO--ubeir announced the kingdom ZouOd sever its reOations Zith Iran over the assauOts giving Iranian dipOomatic personneO 8 hours to Oeave his country. On Monday Saudi Arabia’s civiO aviation authority suspended aOO Àights to and from Iran saying the move Zas based on the king- AP Photo/Vahid Salemi An Iranian woman holds up a poster showing Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a prominent opposition Saudi Shiite cleric who was executed last week by Saudi Arabia, in Tehran, Iran, Monday. dom’s cutting of dipOomatic ties. Iran expressed “regret´ over the attacks on the dipOomatic missions in a Oetter to the United Nations on Monday and voZed to arrest those responsibOe. In the Oetter obtained by The Associat- ed Press Iran’s U.N. envoy GhoO- amaOi .hoshroo said more than 0 protesters have been arrested and that authorities are searching for other suspects. In response to a Saudi Oetter the U.N. Security CounciO Oate Monday strongOy condemned the attacks by Iranian protesters on Saudi dipOomatic posts. The counciO statement agreed to after hours of negotiations made no mention of the Saudi executions or the rupture in Saudi-Iranian reOations. Saudi Arabia and Iran have Oong vied for inÀuence in the MiddOe (ast. Their rivaOry deep- ened foOOoZing the toppOing of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and the chaos of the Arab Spring Zhich gave rise to proxy Zars in Syria and Yemen. An earOy battOeground Zas Bahrain Zhere the Shiite maMor- ity staged mass protests in 2011 demanding poOiticaO reforms from the Sunni monarchy. Saudi Arabia and the (mirates sent in troops to heOp quash the revoOt vieZing it as an Iranian bid to ex- pand its inÀuence. Bahraini of¿ciaOs since have accused Iran of training miOitants and attempting to smuggOe arms into the country Zhich hosts the U.S. Navy’s th )Oeet. In Octo- ber Bahrain ordered the acting Iranian charge d’affaires to Oeave Zithin 2 hours and recaOOed its oZn ambassador after aOOeging that Iran sponsored “subversion´ and “terrorism´ and funneOed arms to miOitants. Sudan Zhich has been Oook- ing to Saudi Arabia for aid since the secession of oiO-rich South Sudan in 2011 on Monday an- nounced an “immediate sever- ing of ties´ over the dipOomatic mission attacks. Sudan once Zas cOoser to Iran but in recent years has tiOted toZard Saudi Arabia and has contributed forces to the Saudi-Oed coaOition battOing Shiite rebeOs in Yemen. The UA( a country of seven emirates has a Oong trading histo- ry Zith Iran and is home to many ethnic Iranians. It said it ZouOd reduce the number of dipOomats in Iran and recaOO its ambassador “in the Oight of Iran’s continuous interference in the internaO affairs of GuOf and Arab states Zhich has reached unprecedented Oev- eOs.´ Saudi Arabia had previousOy severed ties Zith Iran from 1988 to 1991 over rioting during the haMM in 198 and Iran’s attacks on shipping in the Persian GuOf. That dipOomatic freeze saZ Iran haOt piOgrims from attending the haMM in Saudi Arabia something required of aOO abOe MusOims once in their Oives. Iranian OaZmaker Mohammad AOi (sfanani spokesman of the -udiciaO and /egaO Committee said security issues and the fact that Iranian piOgrims ZouOdn’t have consuOar protection inside the kingdom made haOting the piOgrimage for Iranians OikeOy ac- cording to the semi-of¿ciaO ISNA neZs agency. WorOd poZers have sought to caOm the tensions. On Monday Germany caOOed on both sides to mend ties ZhiOe 5ussian state neZs agency 5IA Novosti quot- ed an unnamed senior dipOomat as saying MoscoZ is ready to act as a mediator. The U.N. envoy for Syr- ia Staffan de Mistura Zas en route to 5iyadh on Monday Zith pOans to Oater visit Tehran. Iran a staunch supporter of embattOed Syrian President Bashar Assad and Saudi Arabia a key backer of the opposition have participated in three rounds of internationaO taOks aimed at ending the conÀict. 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