Bernie Sanders introduces law to block military funding aimed at starting war with Iran

Bernie Sanders and fellow Democrat Ro Khanna introduced legislation to block funding for any military budget aimed at starting a war against Iran without Congressional approval. Sanders, a Democratic primary for 2020 presidential elections, h condemned US President Donald Trump’s decision to kill General Qassem Soleimani, he of Iran’s elite Quds Force.

“Today, we are seeing a dangerous escalation that brings us closer to ar disastrous war in Middle East,” said Sanders and Khanna in a joint statement.

“A war with Iran could cost countless lives and trillions more dollars and le to even more deaths, more conflict, more displacement in that alrey highly volatile region of world,” statement re.

Both leers said that Congress has an opportunity to change course after authorising a disastrous $738 billion military budget that placed restrictions on Trump from starting an unauthorised war with Iran. y furr ded that Congressional inaction in face of threat of a catastrophic and “unconstitutional” Middle East conflict is unacceptable. 

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'Loss of lives in Iraq war'

Earlier, Sanders said that he h voted against war in Iran in 2002 since he feared greater destabilization of region which “unfortunately turned out to be true”. 78-years-old US Senator from Vermont expressed anguish over death of around 4,500 American troops during war with Iraq and said that current escalation will le to ar disastrous war in Middle East. Khanna, in a separate tweet, accused White House of building case for war as it h blocked amendment of National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) aimed at preventing war with Iran.

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On January 3, United States anunced that it killed Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike at Baghd’s international airport. After Soleimani’s death, Trump said that United States terminated him because he was plotting “imminent and sinister attacks on American diplomats and military personnel”. US President has w threatened Iran with "brand new beautiful equipment" if it attacks any US citizens or American Base.

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