President Donald Trump said the Senate vote on war powers related to Iran had made his job more difficult, but vowed that he would get it done “one way or the other”.
The US Senate backed legislation directing Trump to halt US military action against Iran, the latest rebuke of the Republican president from an increasingly restive Congress.
The Senate voted 50-48 in favour of the war powers resolution, which passed the House of Representatives early this month, reflecting growing concern even among some of Trump’s Republicans about the unpopular conflict.
Trump, in a post on Truth Social, said: “So, I have Iran on the ‘ropes,’ ready to go down for the fall, willing to give us practically anything.”
For “the first time in decades” Iran was “respecting the hell out of the United States and its President, ME, and the US Senate decides to have a poorly timed and meaningless War Powers Act Vote”, he said.
This comes as Iranian banks were hit by a cyber attack just days afterTrump said that frozen funds would be returned to the Islamic Republic as part of their initial deal to end the war.
