Tehran 06January_US President Donald Trump says the US would strike back at Iran “perhaps in a disproportionate manner,” defying pressure from Congress over his war powers amid spiraling tensions between Tehran and Washington.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club(YJC)-The comment came in a tweet Sunday, days after he ordered the assassination of Iran’s General Qassem Soleimani in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
“These Media Posts will serve as notification to the United States Congress that should Iran strike any US person or target, the United States will quickly & fully strike back, & perhaps in a disproportionate manner. Such legal notice is not required, but is given nevertheless," claimed the US president.
With Iran vowing to retaliate the cowardly attack in due time, there were concern in the United States about Trump’s irrational escalation of tensions in the region.
Senate democratic leader Charles Schumer told ABC earlier in the day that he “will do everything I can to assert our authority. We do not need this president either bumbling or impulsively getting us into a major war.”
“We need Congress to be a check on this president,” said the New York Democratic lawmaker.
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