Iran Press/America: The US senators introduced the legislation just a day after Donald Trump order airstrike to assassinate Lieutenant General Qasem Soleimani, late commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force.
Sanders, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, and US senator Khanna, said in a joint statement: “Today, we are seeing a dangerous escalation that brings us closer to another disastrous war in the Middle East.”
The statement continued: “A war with Iran could cost countless lives and trillions more dollars and lead to even more deaths, more conflict, more displacement in that already highly volatile region of the world.“
The pair have previously criticized their fellow members of Congress for approving a $738 billion military budget that did not include safeguards to limit Trump’s ability to wage a war against Iran. When that legislation was passed last month, Sanders and Khanna called it a “bill of astonishing moral cowardice”.
Lieutenant General Qasem Soleimani was assassinated along with several senior members of Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) on Friday Morning 3 January at Baghdad International airport.
Lieutenant General Qasem Soleimani was awarded by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei as the first Iranian military official to hold Iran’s highest military order, the Order of Zulfaqar after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. 104/219
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