The Hill - Congressional Democrats are raising alarm over the lack of consultation from the Trump administration ahead of a deadly military strike against Irans top general, which lawmakers called reckless and a massive escalation against Iran. The strike by a Reaper drone that killed Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani caught lawmakers in both parties by ...

Reuters | Patricia Zengerle: U.S. officials who briefed Congress about Iran on Tuesday sought to convince lawmakers that President Donald Trumps administration wants to deter Tehrans aggression, not attack the Islamic republic, members of Congress said. I hope theyre tamping down (the rhetoric). They tried to give that impression, Representative Eliot ...

Press TV- Two key US lawmakers in Congress say Washington should work with allies to strictly enforce the Iran nuclear deal rather than pull out of the international agreement. "As flawed as the deal is, I believe we must now enforce the hell out of it," Ed Royce, the Republican chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee,...

Sputnik News- Iran must comply with its part of the 2015 nuclear agreement regardless of whether the United States decides to renew sanctions, Democratic ranking member of the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee Eliot Engel told Sputnik. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) Last week, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif threatened to ...

Rep. Eliot Engel (NY), the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has said this is time for us to launch cruise missile strikes on Syria, and that the US government cannot afford to wait for the United Nations. The world is a better place when the United States takes leadership; this is time for us to do this. I hope well do it soon,...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two top lawmakers are calling for an immediate U.S. military response to the Syria's suspected chemical weapons attack that killed at least a hundred civilians last week. Republican Sen. Bob Corker is calling for the U.S. to respond in a "surgical and proportional way, something that gets their attention." The Tennessee lawmaker ...