7 minutes agoU.S. Senate votes to stop fighting Iran without Congress authorisation
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(2 hours ago)The U.S. Senate has voted with a narrow majority for passing a bill requiring a ban on war with Iran and forcing US President Donald Trump to seek Congress's permission to resume the war. Trump criticised the law as of “meaning”.
This is the first resolution for the competencies of the war to receive support both in the House of Representatives and in the Senate.
The legislation was adopted on June 23rd with 50 votes for and 48 against the Senate, after four republican senators joined the Democrats.
The law requires Trump to attract American forces from the conflict with Iran, unless Congress clearly authorizes military action in the region.
It will not be sent to Trump for signature and approval, and it is not clear for now how it will affect the conflict between Tehran and Washington, which are holding talks on a peace agreement under a fragile ceasefire.
With approval in the Senate of my Resolution for Iran's War Compensations, the two Chambers of Congress have already made it clear that the president cannot continue this chosen war and should cease all hostilities against Iran”, Gregory Meeks, the highest-ranking Democrat at the Commission for Foreign Affairs, said after the vote.
Despite what President Trump says, this measure is binding under the Resolution for War Compensations and I will examine all legal ways to ensure that executive power adheres to the will of Congress”, Meeks added.
At the same time, Trump criticised Congress for passing this law, saying it was “in an uninhibited time and is meaningless”.
These senators have just made my job harder, but I'm going to do it, one way or another, because I always do the job!”, Trump complained on his social platform, Fifth Social.
He wrote that, at just a time when Iran is “ready to give us everything” and then “shows extraordinary respect to the United States” and to it personally, “The US Senate decides to hold a bad and meaningless vote for the Act of War Competations, showing sponsors the number of terrorism in the world that the United States does not support what I'm doing to them and that it needs to make the item 11855>
Trump referred to Iran as the world's number one terrorist sponsor,”, repeating an accusation his administration has often used against Tehran.
Over the past few months, Democrat senators have repeatedly submitted bills to stop the war, but they have been toppled by the republican majority.
Republicans also hold a close majority in the House of Representatives. / REL/
