CNN - The House will vote Thursday on a pair of measures intended to rein in President Donald Trump's ability to take military action against Iran, the latest effort by Democrats to reassert congressional authority amid simmering tensions with the country in the wake of a US strike that killed a top Iranian general. One of the measures, sponsored ...

Euronews - Democrats on Sunday demanded answers about the killing of top Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani as tensions mounted between the U.S. and Iran and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insisted that the U.S. had faced an imminent threat. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told ABC's "This Week" he worried that Trump's decision "will get ...

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 ...

Bloomberg | Daniel Flatley and Steven T. Dennis: Democrats were still clamoring for answers about U.S. intentions in Iran, even after a closed-door briefing from Trump administration officials about heightened tensions in the region. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan and other intelligence officials spoke ...

Al-Monitor| Bryant Harris: The United States top diplomat and its lead civilian and military defense officials yesterday failed to assuage lawmakers concerns that the country may be inadvertently hurtling toward war with Iran. I still dont have a clear idea of what the administrations objectives are, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam ...

Foreign Policy - Amid a tense standoff between the United States and Iran, four lawmakers are sending a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump expressing concern that he was inflating threats and bending intelligence on Iran and leading the United States down a path to another war in the Middle Eastthough top administration officials said they do not ...

MNA A number of US Democrats are calling on other senators to sign a bill that would prevent the Trump administration from launching a military attack on Iran. In a tweet on Friday, US Senator from Connecticut Chris Murphy invited his followers to call their senators and tell them to sign on to a bill introduced by Senator from New Mexico Tom Udall ...

The Wall Street Journal | Mark Dubowitz: Democrats are talking about re-entering the 2015 Iran nuclear deal if they defeat President Trump next year. At least three challengersSens. Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren say theyll do so, and the Democratic National Committee passed a resolution in February calling for a return to the agreement....

Oil Price | Tsvetana Paraskova: Five U.S. Democratic presidential hopefuls would re-joinif elected presidentthe Iranian nuclear deal, from which U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew last year imposing sanctions on Irans oil industry, Al-Monitor reports, citing direct communication with spokespersons and aides for the Democrats who have declared they ...

Press TV - US Senator Bernie Sanders, who announced he is running for president again in the 2020 elections, has lashed out at US President Donald Trump, calling him a pathological liar, who embarrasses the United States daily. Speaking at a campaign rally in in Concord, New Hampshire on Sunday, the Independent senator from Vermont who caucuses ...

Vox - While the Brett Kavanaugh drama was tearing apart Washington last week, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) quietly signed on to a Democrat-led bill prohibiting the use of federal money for a war against Iran without Congresss express approval. Pauls signature officially makes the bill, introduced on September 26, a bipartisan effort to restrict Americas ...

The Hill - Democrats frustrated over the Trump administrations support for Saudi Arabia in Yemens bloody civil war are plotting moves to curtail or cut off U.S. military support for the Saudi-led coalition. A group of House Democratsis planning to introduce a resolution under the War Powers Act that would withdraw U.S. forces from the war. By ...

Iranian Diplomacy | Hanif Ghafari: As US congressional elections draw nearer, the rivalry between Democrats and Republicans get fiercer and one of things probable to be affected by the outcome may be the prospect of the JCPOA AKA Iran nuclear deal. As we come closer to November and the time for the congress elections in the United States, the competitions ...

Sputnik - Earlier on Sunday, a Twitter exchange between the American president and his Iranian counterpart came into the spotlight, with the former emotionally responding in capitalized letters. Democrats have posted a tongue-in-cheek all-caps tweet mocking President Trumps recent warning toIrans President Hassan Rouhani. The Democratic ...

IFP - A political analyst says the Democrats are likely to emerge victorious in the upcoming election of the US Congress, but even so, Iran will have the same problems with the Democrats as with the Republicans. Amir-Ali Abolfath, an expert on the US issues, has, in an article published by the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), weighed in ...

Tasnim US Democratic lawmakers condemned Donald Trumps withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers, saying Trump and the Republican party will go down in history as those who destroyed the United States' credibility and made the world a more dangerous place. Trump and his Republicans will go down in history as the party ...

Press TV - US Congressional Democrats have blasted President Donald Trumps decision not to recertify the 2015 multinational nuclear agreement with Iran, saying the new policy is a grave mistake that endangers US interests and undermines American credibility. Trumps decision Friday not to certify the deal for a third time immediately provoked the ...

Politico- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi will hold a briefing with key negotiators of the Iran nuclear deal just days before President Trump is expected to decertify the Obama-era agreement. Former Secretary of State John Kerry and former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, who spearheaded the negotiations that led to the agreement, will participate ...

JTA- Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., a senior House Democrat who opposed the Iran nuclear deal, is leading an effort to persuade President Donald Trump to abide by the agreement. Some of us voted for, and some against the Iran nuclear agreement, said the letter due to be sent Wednesday to Trump with signatures from 160 Democrats in the U.S. House ...

Reuters - As Congress faces a possible fight over the future of the Iran nuclear agreement, seven senior Senate Democrats demanded on Wednesday that the Trump administration provide lawmakers with any information showing Tehran is not complying with the international pact. In a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis ...