House lawmakers rejected a war powers resolution to halt Trump’s attack on Iran in a 212-219 vote, a day after the Senate voted down a similar measure.
The U.S. Embassy in Kuwait shut down after retaliatory Iranian strikes on the country, becoming the second American diplomatic mission to fully halt work as the war in Iran escalates. Kuwait is also where six American soldiers were killed by an Iranian drone Sunday.
U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he should have a role in choosing Iran’s next supreme leader, raising questions about whether Washington and Israel seek regime change or policy concessions as the conflict has appears increasingly open-ended.
Tehran has warned of the destruction of the Middle East’s military and economic infrastructure, and the war has rattled financial markets, with the Dow dropping 1,000 points as oil prices climb more.
The war has killed at least 1,230 people in Iran, more than 70 in Lebanon and around a dozen in Israel, according to officials in those countries.
Speaker Johnson says ‘we are not at war,’ and claims the ‘mission is nearly accomplished’
Republican Rep. Mike Johnson spoke briefly after the House joined the Senate in rejecting a war powers resolution to halt Trump’s attacks on Iran.
Johnson said the U.S. is conducting a “limited operation” over Iran, that’s “limited in scope and duration.”
“We are not at war. We have no intention of being at war,” said the House speaker, a close ally of Trump. “That mission is nearly accomplished.”
The speaker contradicted the president’s own portrayal of the joint U.S.-Israel air bombing campaign as a war.
Source: WPLG
