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Nancy Pelosi says the House will vote to limit Trump’s war powers on Iran as tensions grow, USA Today reported.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the legislation will be introduced to limit President Donald Trump’s military actions against Iran.
The House of Representatives will vote this week. This announcement comes as tensions have increased between the two countries after Trump ordered an airstrike killing top Iranian General Qasem Soleimani.
Pelosi wrote a letter to Democratic members of the House, which read, the “provocative and disproportionate” airstrike on Soleimani “endangered our servicemembers, diplomats and others by risking a serious escalation of tensions with Iran.”
“The resolution, which Pelosi said will be introduced and voted on this week, will mandate that military hostilities with Iran cease within 30 days unless further congressional authorization like a declaration of war is taken,” USA Today reported.
A similar resolution will be introduced in the Senate by Tim Kaine, D-Va.
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According to Pelosi, freshman Michigan Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin will lead the resolution. Slotkin is from a swing district outside Detroit and is a former analyst for the Department of Defense and CIA.
Slotkin has been critical of the Trump administration’s actions in the Middle East, and in a series of tweets on Friday, she said that the Democratic and Republican administrations she served under made the calculation that targeting Soleimani posed too great a risk to American diplomats and service members.
Soleimani’s killing has sparked fears of a broader conflict in the Middle East as tensions between the United States and Iran have escalated.
On Sunday, the Iraqi Parliament voted to expel American soldiers from the country, drawing a threat of sanctions from Trump. Trump also reiterated his threat to target Iranian cultural sites if Iran takes military action against U.S. forces.
Iran also abandoned its remaining commitments to a nuclear deal between it and world powers that the United States left in May 2018.
Earlier today, a video went viral featuring a double-amputee veteran who thanked President Trump and explained the importance of the airstrike against Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.
One of the main reasons Soleimani is identified as a terrorist is that he supported the Iraqi insurgency that claimed so many American lives during the Iraq War.
Soleimani was responsible for the deadly improvised explosive devices (IEDs) that left many men and women in the U.S. military with scars both visible and invisible.
Some of those men and women of the U.S. military may never heal.
Soleimani led proxy wars resulting in the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition forces, including my friends and colleagues. Thank you, President @realDonaldTrump for your bold decision in fighting against our enemies #WI07 pic.twitter.com/PwtynIPTOW
— Jason Church (@JasonChurchWI) January 3, 2020
