US lawmakers in Congress, in yet another belligerent move against the Islamic Republic, have approved a bill to restrict the proliferation of Iran's military drone in the midst of negotiations over the removal of anti-Tehran sanctions in the Austrian capital of Vienna. In a statement on Friday, Gregory W. Meeks, head of the House Foreign Affairs ...

Tehran Times - Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has said that U.S. President Donald Trump should understand that he does not have the authority to go to war with Iran without Congressional authorization. The Presidents message in vetoing the war powers resolution on Iran demonstrates yet again his contempt for the U.S. Congress as a co-equal ...

AP Defying a veto threat, Congress has approved a bipartisan measure to limit President Donald Trumps authority to launch military operations against Iran. The House gave final legislative approval to the measure Wednesday, 227-186, sending it to Trump. The president has promised to veto the war powers resolution, warning that if his hands were ...

Euronews - Republican and Democratic members of Congress said Tuesday night that they are praying for U.S. forces overseas and that they are monitoring developments following news that Iran launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles at U.S. military forces in Iraq. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., tweeted that the U.S. and the world "cannot ...

TASS - The US House of Representatives will vote this week on a resolution to limit President Donald Trumps war powers on Iran amid increased tensions between the two countries, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a letter sent to Democratic members of Congress. The resolution "reasserts Congress's long-established oversight responsibilities by mandating ...

Tasnim Irans Foreign Ministry denounced a bill recently passed by the US Congress committee on Foreign Relations about Hong Kong as brazen interference in the internal affairs of other countries. In a statement on Monday, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Abbas Mousavi denounced the rude move by the US Congress committee to approve a bill on democracy ...

Tehran Times - Twenty-eight lawmakers from both the Republican and Democratic parties are pushing legislation to ban the use of funds for military action against Iran without congressional authorization, according to an internal letter obtained by Foreign Policy. Similar legislation has failed before, but lawmakers are hoping they can fold this ...

The Washington Post | George F. Will: Difficulties with Iran will recur regularly, like the oscillations of a sine wave, and the recent crisis if such it was, or is illustrates persistent U.S. intellectual and institutional failures, starting with this: The Trump administrations assumption, and that of many in Congress, is that if the president wants ...

Reuters - U.S. President Donald Trump, declaring a national emergency because of tensions with Iran, swept aside objections from Congress on Friday to complete the sale of over $8 billion worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan. The Trump administration informed congressional committees that it will go ahead with 22 ...

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 ...

AP | LISA MASCARO and SUSANNAH GEORGE: Lawmakers from both parties in Congress demanded more information on the White Houses claims of rising threats in the Middle East, warning President Donald Trump off a dangerous escalation with Iran. The top leaders in Congress the so-called Gang of Eight are to receive a classified briefing from the administration ...

Reuters - Members of the U.S. Congress complained on Tuesday that President Donald Trumps administration has not shared enough information with them as tensions flared with Iran, with even some Republicans saying they have been left in the dark. I think all of us are in the dark over here, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham told reporters outside ...

The Guardian | Simon Tisdall: Expected or not, Donald Trumps veto of a bipartisan Congressional resolution to end US military involvement in Saudi Arabias murderous war in Yemen is an outrage. It will prolong the unspeakable suffering of millions of Yemeni civilians, the blameless victims of Riyadhs vicious proxy war with Iran and Houthis. Yet ...

MNA Even the US Congress wants to put an end to CENTCOM's destabilizing activities in Yemen, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote on his Tweeter account on Wednesday. But petrofinanced #NetanyahuFirsters and their enabler in the White House will continuewith American lives and against US intereststo push for forever wars, he added....

Sputnik - President Donald Trump in a letter to the Senate said he is rejecting a measure passed by Congress to end US involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen. On April 5, the US House of Representatives passed the Yemen war resolution by a 247-175 vote after it was approved by the Senate by a 54-46 vote in March. The joint resolution calls for ...

MNA The US Congress has once again dragged back to surface old claims about the disappearance of ex-FBI agent Robert Levinson in a bid to put more pressure on Iran. According to Breitbart News Network, a bipartisan group of Florida lawmakers, comprising Reps. Michael Waltz, Ted Deutch, and Lois Frankel, as well as Sen. Marco Rubio, has introduced ...

The Washington Post | Tom Udall and Richard J. Durbin: Tom Udall, a Democrat, represents New Mexico in the U.S. Senate. Richard J. Durbin, a Democrat, represents Illinois in the U.S. Senate. Sixteen years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, we are again barreling toward another unnecessary conflict in the Middle East based on faulty and misleading ...

Press TV - Over 50 pro-diplomacy organizations in the United States have slammed President Donald Trumps belligerent Iran policy, calling on congressmen to stand against Washingtons sanctions spree and press it to return to the 2015 multinational nuclear deal. In a statement addressed to Congress on Wednesday, the groups, which represent millions ...

Al-Monitor | Bryant Harris: Although Congress has yet to coalesce around a path out of the monthlong government shutdown, it has at least reached a consensus on a Middle East aid package for 2019. The compromise contains good news for several US allies namely Egypt, Morocco and Turkey as it undoes significant setbacks they faced when the House ...

MNA US lawmakers have introduced a bill this week in Congress to undermine Irans efforts to develop its own cryptocurrency. According to New York-based CoinDesk, a news site specializing in bitcoin and digital currencies, Rep. Mike Gallagher has submitted a bill to the US House of Representatives called Blocking Iran Illicit Finance Act, calling ...