Sanders introduce bill to block funds for war
Sanders introduce bill to block funds for war

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders followed an angry attack on Donald Trump’s ordered airstrike assassination of Iran’s top military commander with the announcement of a new bill to block funding for a war against Iran — unless Congress approves. Sanders announced the bill at a campaign stop Saturday in Des […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders followed an angry attack on Donald Trump’s ordered airstrike assassination of Iran’s top military commander with the announcement of a new bill to block funding for a war against Iran — unless Congress approves.

Sanders announced the bill at a campaign stop Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa. The measure, which will be introduced with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), would “prohibit” any federal funding of any offensive military action in or against Iran “without congressional authorization,” he said, HuffPost reported.

“If Congress wants to go to war, let Congress have the guts to vote for war,” Sanders challenged. Otherwise, lawmakers must block such action, he urged. “Do not let this president take unilateral action.”

“Our founding fathers gave the responsibility over war not to the president, but to Congress,” Sanders declared. “That is very clear in the Constitution. And in my view, Congress must act in the face of a president who has shown time and time again that he cannot be relied upon to tell us the truth, or to make well-thought-out decisions.”

Sanders called the killing of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani a “dangerous escalation,” and a step toward another “disastrous war” in the Mideast.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) also weighed in on the conflict Saturday, calling Trump “reckless,” and blaming him for fueling increased tensions that started with his abandonment of the Iranian nuclear deal last year.

  • source : Iran Daily, Irannews