The US Senate has approved a resolution on the cessation of strikes on Iran. What the media is writing
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The US Senate has supported a resolution that prohibits President Donald Trump from striking Iran. She was supported by four Republicans opposed to prolonging the war. At the same time, the head of state again threatened a powerful attack on Iran in the coming days. How the media reacts to Washington's policy is in the Izvestia digest.
The Washington Post: The US Senate has approved a resolution blocking strikes on Iran
The U.S. Senate has voted to advance a resolution banning President Donald Trump from ordering new strikes on Iran, defying the White House after nearly three months of unpopular war. Four Republicans joined Democrats in voting to move a resolution on war powers from the committee, which was the first step in forcing Trump to end a war that Congress had not authorized.
The Washington Post
The procedural vote, which ended with a score of 50-47, was a breakthrough for Democrats, but this bill still has significant obstacles to overcome before it can force Trump to end the war.
Since the beginning of the war, the Democrats have initiated a vote on seven similar resolutions, all of which failed. However, several Republican senators who initially voted against changed their position as the war dragged on. Senator Bill Cassidy, whom Trump left without his support, said that while he agreed with efforts to dismantle Iran's nuclear program, the White House and the Pentagon kept Congress in the dark about the war.
Politico: The Senate has dealt an unexpected blow to Trump
The Democrats scored an unexpected victory when the bill to end the war with Iran overcame the initial hurdle in the Senate. Critics of the military operation took advantage of the shortage of personnel in the Republican faction — three senators missed the vote — as a result of which it was decided by 50 votes to 47 to hold a debate on Trump's condemnation.
Politico
Opponents of the war have received another defector from the Republican Party in the person of Senator Bill Cassidy. This Republican from Louisiana, who voted to condemn President Donald Trump after his second impeachment in connection with the January 6 uprising, lost the election this weekend after Trump supported one of his rivals.
The bill will need to go through several more stages before it can be passed, giving Republicans the opportunity to block it in the coming days. Trump and the leaders of the Republican Party similarly managed to win over Republicans to their side in order to postpone the adoption of the bill on Venezuela in January after it passed the initial vote.
Bloomberg: Trump threatens Iran with a "major blow"
Trump has threatened to resume strikes on Iran in the coming days as part of efforts to reach an agreement to end the war, after saying he had just called off the US attack. These comments have once again raised the issue of the resumption of active hostilities with Iran, which has so far refused to comply with Trump's demands after weeks of strikes. Nevertheless, the President has repeatedly threatened to resume hostilities, and then abandoned them since reaching an armistice agreement on April 8.
Bloomberg
"I hope we don't have to start a war, but we may have to deal them another hard blow," Trump told reporters [on May 19]. When asked how long he would wait, he replied, "Well, I mean, two or three days, maybe Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Maybe early next week, for a limited period of time."
Vice President J.D. Vance expressed a slightly more positive attitude towards the negotiations on the same day, although he threatened to resume strikes. Despite the fact that Trump regularly influences financial markets with his comments about Iran, market analysts note that some of this influence is waning as the president first threatens and then does not carry out his threats.
The New York Times: the purpose of the war in Iran was to restore the former president of the country
A few days after the Iranian supreme leader and other senior officials were killed in Israeli strikes at the beginning of the war, Trump publicly expressed the idea that it would be better if "someone from inside" Iran took power in the country. It turned out that the United States and Israel had entered into a conflict, referring to a specific and very unexpected person: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former president of Iran, known for his harsh anti-Israeli and anti-American views.
The New York Times
But the audacious plan, developed by the Israelis and coordinated with Ahmadinejad, quickly failed, according to American officials familiar with it. Ahmadinejad was wounded on the first day of the war in an Israeli strike on his home in Tehran, which was supposed to free him from house arrest, American officials and an associate of Ahmadinejad said. According to eyewitnesses, he survived the blow, but after narrowly avoiding disaster, he became disillusioned with the regime change plan. He has not been seen in public since, and his current whereabouts and condition are unknown.
To say that Ahmadinejad's choice was unusual would be a huge understatement. Although he increasingly clashed with regime leaders and was closely monitored by the Iranian authorities, during his presidency from 2005 to 2013, he was known for calling for "wiping Israel off the map." He was an ardent supporter of Iran's nuclear program, an outspoken critic of the United States, and known for brutally suppressing domestic dissent. How Ahmadinejad was involved remains unknown.
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