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House Passes Resolution to Block Military Action Against Iran

Lawmakers voted 215–208 for the Democrat-led measure to remove U.S. troops from armed hostilities with Iran.

WASHINGTON—The U.S. House of Representatives, on June 3, passed a resolution to withdraw U.S. troops from armed hostilities with Iran.

Lawmakers voted 215–208 for the Democrat-led measure. Four Republicans voted with Democrats in support of the resolution.

The measure invokes the 1973 War Powers Resolution to halt the Iran conflict or otherwise force President Donald Trump to obtain congressional approval to continue the military operations against Iran that began on Feb. 28.

House and Senate lawmakers have rejected several previous attempts to pass such legislation. The Senate would still need to pass this latest measure for it to have a chance of becoming law, and Trump could still issue a veto.

A previous resolution to halt the Iran conflict failed in the House on May 14 in a 212–212 tie vote. Democrats had set a follow-up attempt in motion, with a vote scheduled on May 21, but Republican leaders in the House were able to cancel the vote at the last minute, amid growing signs it could pass.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said the timing of the Democrat-led resolution could interfere with Trump’s efforts to negotiate a lasting peace agreement with Tehran.

“The president is now in the process of concluding a peace agreement, and we have to allow him the latency to do that,” Johnson told The Epoch Times ahead of the scheduled vote. “And I think a war powers resolution right now is very untimely, and a very negative and dangerous thing in the country.”

Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) said Congress should have already acted to pull U.S. forces back from the Iran conflict.

The 1973 War Powers Resolution states a president must remove U.S. forces from any hostilities lacking congressional authorization within 60 days. However, a president may extend that timeline by 30 days to enable a safe troop withdrawal.

Washington and Tehran officially reached a ceasefire on April 7, but Trump subsequently implemented an armed blockade of Iranian ports and trade, and U.S. and Iranian forces have exchanged fire on several occasions.

U.S. forces launched a missile at the engine room of an oil tanker on June 2, as part of their blockade enforcement operations. Within hours, Iranian forces launched multiple waves of missile and drone attacks at Kuwait and Bahrain, including salvos targeting U.S. military outposts in those two Gulf states.

Asked if she expected enough Republicans would join in support of the latest war powers vote, DeLauro told The Epoch Times, “I’m hoping that they will see the light.”

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So who are the TURNCOAT RINOs that voted FOR this Democrat resolution?

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That's what you get with republicans.

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Republican YEAs: Massie, ....

Anybody surprised by this?

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Republican YEAs: Massie, ....

Anybody surprised by this?

Nope. Just goes to show that he was an asshole from the start.

I don't know all 535 congressional critters and of the 4 traitors only knew Massie's name (he'll be spite voting the rest of his term).

3/4 survived their primary this year and 2 of 4 live in swing districts (Fitzpatrick PA-01, Barrett MI-07). I'd be willing to wager a large sum of money that the swing district reps voting is based on some swarmy pollster convincing them they can win the middle if they vote against Trump and as we all know every politician's goal #2 of their top 4 goals is:
1 - get elected
2 - get re-elected
3 - get a slice of the graft
4 - everything else

From what I can tell, Fitzpatrick is a RINO, Davidson is typically staunch conservative but has a libertarian streak, and barrett is an unknown (freshman).

I watched another excellent VDH video (as usual) and he mentioned a perspective many don't understand well, myself included to a degree, that the reason he's not finishing the job so to speak is because he's trying to build a durable middle east coalition of the affected neighboring countries, which VDH said "takes time", which I'm sure it does given the history of that part of the world.

So my take is that he's using lots of his own political capital and some from his supporting members on the Republican side in order to achieve that, which must be a LOT harder to do than to just "finish the job".

When you understand that, and how sensitive that type of work has to be requiring TONS of careful planning and secrecy, I'd say the POTUS has the biggest brass nads, no make that steel, than anyone else in the political world on the face of the earth.

Iran admits extraordinary new detail in Khamenei strike, Trump offered 'way out'

New details from Iran’s top diplomat about the strike that killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei provide some of the clearest evidence yet of the precision and strategy behind the joint U.S.-Israeli operation that launched Operation Epic Fury, counterterrorism experts said Sunday.

The account, revealed by Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in a new television interview, also highlights what analysts describe as a defining feature of President Donald Trump’s national security doctrine: using a decapitation strike against a hostile regime while simultaneously creating an off-ramp to end the conflict.

"Well, the building we were sitting in was targeted, but the wing we were in remained intact while the other wing of the building was destroyed," Araghchi said in an interview that aired June 4 on the Lebanon-based, Hezbollah-backed Al Mayadeen television network.

While Araghchi survived the Feb. 28 strike because he was in a different wing of Khamenei's compound when the attack occurred, he went on to detail how Khamenei was in his office and how others survived.

Reviewing the original segment, counterterrorism expert Dr. Omar Mohammed told Fox News Digital that Araghchi’s account confirms the operation targeted a specific section of the complex rather than flattening the entire site.

"In the Arabic version, Araghchi says he was in a different wing of the compound, briefing another official, and his wing survived while the leader’s office was destroyed," Mohammed explained.

Araghchi also told the interviewer that he had an appointment that day with an official at the compound regarding the Geneva negotiations and that, based on the usual workflow, Khamenei "had to be present in his office."

Mohammed, director of the Antisemitism Research Initiative at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, added that if Araghchi’s account is accurate, this was Iran's glaring acknowledgment of U.S. strategic capabilities.

"They did not flatten a building; they took one wing and left the one next to it standing. That is President Trump’s whole doctrine in a single strike — he does not want a war of occupation, he wants to show the United States can reach the center of a hostile regime with precision and then offer it a way out," Mohammed said.

The daylight strike on elder Khamenei’s compound was carried out by Israeli jets targeting the site with 30 precision munitions alongside Sparrow air-launched ballistic missiles.

Military officials confirmed that a precise strike sequence killed Khamenei, 86, alongside Defense Minister Amir Nasirzadeh, IRGC Commander Mohammed Pakpour and multiple top security leaders.

Trump confirmed U.S. involvement in Khamenei’s killing in a post on social media at the time.

"He was unable to avoid our intelligence and highly sophisticated tracking systems, and, working closely with Israel, there was not a thing he or the other leaders killed alongside him could do," the president wrote.

"Iran was handed the clearest message an adversary can get — we can reach your leader in his own office, and here is the off-ramp," Mohammed noted. "A rational state takes the exit. Tehran did the opposite. It fired on Israel, killed a civilian in Bahrain, struck Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, and closed the Strait of Hormuz, setting off a global energy crisis. The surgical strike was American. The months-long war that followed was Iran's choice."

Following the leadership transition, Ali Khamenei's son, Mojtaba Khamenei, became Iran's new supreme leader.

He has since been involved in back-channel discussions with the U.S. while maintaining a confrontational public stance.

"In Arabic, Araghchi calls the new leader ‘the young Khamenei in place of the elderly Khamenei.’ That is the language of a monarchy, not a republic of clerics," Mohammed observed. "They are rewriting the theology on air to fit a son who lacks the religious rank, who was wounded in the same strike and who then vanished for weeks. A revolution that came to power by ending a monarchy is handing the throne from father to son."

"The real story is not that Iran is strong," Mohammed continued. "It was shown the precision of American power and the door was held open, and it chose to widen the war instead."

Bad move for the enemy. Shooting down an Apache. Pilots ok.

I guess it must be time for another extension of the ceasefire for a few weeks. Or, maybe we can really take the gloves off this time and demand more negotiations.

It is always darkest before the dawn. Never give up hope for a better, brighter future.

It's just like the UK issuing a harsh letter for a city being nuked repeatedly. They might actually become cross and start shouting to stop it.

Their ports should be craters and oil infrastructure should blacken the skies.

Iran shoots down a US helicopter the time for a "proportional response" has come and gone. Whoever is suggesting to the President this half-measure tactic needs to be kicked out of decision making.
Iran needs to get hit hard to get to an agreement. Taking out their oil and gas infrastructure would be a good step.

We need to drop some Moab’s and absolutely wreck their military to the point it seems excessive, then we need to do it more so they get the message.

We should do to Tehran what we did to Dresden. Anyone else here old enough to remember that?

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You guys ought to call the White House. I’m sure President Trump would welcome your advice.

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You guys ought to call the White House.

(202) 456-1111. Our operators are standing by.

He’s losing me and how he’s handling this war and I’ve always been one of his biggest supporters. This isn’t the time for “proportional”. Give these people what they want and send them to their maker.

I’m tired of hearing Trump say “ they wanna make a deal”. If we get anything less than than the strait opening and the seizure of the uranium we have lost this. God forbid there is any more American bloodshed. It almost happened again today.

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God forbid there is any more American bloodshed.

Really? In your "police shooting" thread you said ..."when lots of the time they should just be kicking the shit out of the perp. Damn I miss my sap."

You're against American bloodshed unless it's the right American blood being shed?