Trump says deadline for Congress to approve Iran war doesn’t apply, claiming hostilities have ‘terminated’……

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Enter your email address Enter your email address “The hostilities that began on February 28, 2026, have terminated,” Trump wrote House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. , and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the Senate president pro tempore. Yet he also made it clear in the letter that the war may be far from over.

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“Despite the success of United States operations against the Iranian regime and continued efforts to secure a lasting peace, the threat posed by Iran to the United States and our Armed Forces remains significant,” the Republican president said. Under the War Powers Resolution of 1973,