Donald Trump April 30, 2020. - Alex Brandon / AP / SIPA

It was expected. Donald Trump vetoed a congressional resolution on Wednesday to limit his scope for military action against Iran. "It was an insulting resolution presented by the Democrats as part of their strategy to win the November 3 election by dividing the Republican party," said the President in a statement.

True snub to the tenant of the White House, the text had been approved by the two chambers of Congress thanks to the support of a part of the members of the republican party. According to this resolution, the President of the United States cannot engage his soldiers in "hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran" or "any part of his government or his army" without "explicit authorization" from Congress, under the form of a declaration of war or a specific green light.

In response to the strike against Soleimani

It was a parliamentary response to tensions between the two enemy countries, which had peaked when Washington killed on January 3, in a strike ordered by Donald Trump, the powerful Iranian general Qassem Soleimani.

Democrats and some Republicans had expressed concern that the escalation would escalate into direct military confrontation. But after a response from Tehran, which had targeted missiles on bases used by the US military in Iraq without causing death, the extreme tension had subsided somewhat.

For Donald Trump, this resolution would have "greatly damaged the president's ability to protect" the United States and its allies. "We live in a hostile world where threats are constantly evolving and the constitution recognizes that the president must be able to anticipate the actions of our adversaries and act quickly and decisively to respond to them," he wrote. " That's what I did ! ", He concluded.

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