Washington-Sana
The US Senate has begun debating a resolution that limits President Donald Trump's powers to wage war on Iran.
"The draft resolution aims to prevent unilateral warfare, and Congress must reaffirm our constitutional role in war and peace issues," Agence France-Press quoted Democratic Senator Tim Caen as saying today.
The bill is likely to be approved after eight Republican members agreed to vote alongside Democrats, amid fears that Trump could make a reckless decision to go to war with Iran without consulting Congress.
Trump relies on the Republican majority in the Senate to block legislation he does not approve of, so approving his war powers would place him in an embarrassing position.
And the US House of Representatives that dominated the Democrats last January approved its own version of this decision, after the Trump administration committed the assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani and the Iranian missile response that followed on the base of Ein al-Assad in Iraq, where American forces are deployed and the losses left And casualties among these forces.