Sputnik - The former national security advisors new tell-all book, suggestively titled The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, is expected to hit stores on Tuesday, with a judge ultimately refusing a Trump administration request to delay publication on national security grounds. US President Donald Trump was prepared to back Israel if ...

RT | Darius Shahtahmasebi: Saudi Arabia was made nervous by a recent US decision to remove some of its military hardware from the kingdom. Is the US punishing Riyadh for its disastrous oil price war, or has it given up on its bid to confront Iran? After a decades-long, disturbingly cozy relationship, the Trump administration recently announced it ...

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 ...

Reuters - The U.S. Senate failed on Thursday to override President Donald Trumps veto of a resolution that would have reined in his ability to wage war against Iran by requiring him to obtain congressional authorization for military action. The vote was 49-44 in favor of the resolution, but that fell short of the two-thirds majority, or 67 votes,...

Iran Review | Ted Snider: Some wars are fought with bombs and bullets. These are the wars in Syria and Iraq, in Afghanistan and Yemen. Then there are quieter wars executed by drone. These cowardly wars also kill people, but not our people. These quieter wars accomplish what the more cacophonous wars accomplish without the public outcry and condemnation....

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 | Anthony Marcum: It is not a coincidence that the founders gave the power to "declare war" and "raise and support armies" to the branch closest and most accountable to the people: the legislative branch. They understood that a grave responsibility comes with the power to send a nation's citizens into harm's way in service of policies decided ...

Reuters - The U.S. Senate passed legislation on Thursday to limit President Donald Trumps ability to wage war against Iran, rebuking him weeks after a strike against an Iranian military commander and Tehrans retaliation raised fears of broader regional conflict. Eight of Trumps fellow Republicans joined Democrats to pass the war powers resolution ...

Reuters - The U.S. Senate advanced legislation on Wednesday intended to limit President Donald Trumps ability to wage war against Iran, paving the way for a final vote as eight Republicans joined Democrats in supporting the war powers resolution. The resolution would require Trump to remove U.S. troops engaged in hostilities against Iran unless ...

Reuters - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday warned the Senate against adopting a resolution that would curb his ability to wage war against Iran, saying it would send a very bad signal and allow Tehran to act with impunity. It is very important for our Countrys SECURITY that the United States Senate not vote for the Iran War Powers Resolution....

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 ...

CNN | Joan Cook: Recent tensions between the United States and Iran and the underlying threat of war have many Americans on edge. After a US air strike in Baghdad on January 3 killed Gen. Qasem Soleimani, Iran's influential military commander and a power broker of terror in the Middle East, the Iranians vowed harsh revenge. They kept their promise ...

RT - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has warned that military confrontation with Iran will impact global peace and stability. The comments came at the start of Abes five-day Gulf tour as he hopes to ease tensions spiked by the US killing of a top Iranian general. The PM called on all relevant countries to engage in diplomatic efforts to defuse tensions,...

Press TV - Anti-war protesters march through central London to call for "de-escalation in the Middle East" following the US assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and the IRGC's retaliatory missile attacks on a US base in Iraq. The London protests were organized on Saturday by the Stop The War C, aBritishgroup established on 21 September ...

Reuters - A top Iranian commander said on Thursday that Iran was not moving towards a war but was not afraid of any conflict, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported after U.S. President Donald Trump said Tehran was behind anti-U.S. protests in Iraq. Trump accused Iran of orchestrating demonstrations at the U.S. embassy in Iraq on Tuesday ...

Reuters - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he does not want, or foresee, war with Iran, after he earlier threatened to retaliate against the country following violent protests led by Iranian-backed militias at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad. Asked about the possibility of tensions spiraling into a war with Iran, Trump told reporters at his ...

IRNA - Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi said on Thursday that thanks to Iran's high combat readiness, the US has no courage to attack Iran. He made the remarks in his speech to the army personnel in Mashad. He said that the Americans are well-known as aggressors with records of aggression on several states and they have killed ...

Press TV - Hawkish Israeli foreign minister Israel Katz has threatened a military operationagainst Iran with the help of the United States, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Katz saidIsraeli bombing in Iran was "an option," making the most brazen threat in yearsin an interview with the Italian newspaperCorriere della Sera Saturday on the ...

Press TV - Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami says US President Donald Trumps recent threat of a military attack against Tehran is only a bluff to cover Washingtons mortification for its failures. It seems more like a bluff to cover their chagrin for their failed policies, General Hatami told reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet ...

FNA - Head of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps Public Relations Department Brigadier General Ramezan Sharif blasted US President Donald Trump for his military threat against Iran, warning Washington of a crushing response. "Iran's defense capability is so high that no enemy dares to look at the country with greedy eyes," General Sharif said, addressing ...