House votes for a third time to end Iran war in symbolic move as conflict drags on

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For a third time, the US House has voted to end the war in Iran, approving a war powers resolution that would halt Donald Trump’s ability to continue military action without congressional approval.

The roll call late on Tuesday, 220-204, was similar to earlier efforts this summer, with a few more Republicans joining all Democrats voting to bring an end to the conflict.

None of the resolutions have made it to the president’s desk, where Trump would almost certainly veto the measure, the Associated Press reported.

“Remember when Donald Trump said that this war would last just a few weeks?” said Democratic representative Seth Moulton, who served as a marine during the Iraq war and pushed the resolution forward.

He said it’s time for Congress to “actually ask tough questions, as the constitution directs us to do, rather than be subservient to another warmongering administration”.

Republican Brian Mast of Florida, the chair of the House foreign affairs committee, questioned which military resources Democrats would want to remove from the region where he said Iran remains a threat.

Mast said Trump is against “forever wars, and that is what he is ending” – the decades of hostilities from Iran. “They are a continuous ongoing threat to the United States,” Mast said. “Enough is enough.”

The action is likely the last House vote on the Iran war before the midterm elections, in which the conflict overseas is playing a substantial role in the political campaigns.

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