Senator Chris Murphy, Di Kun. , The military strikes of President Donald Trump on Iranian nuclear facilities were “illegal” but were asked whether he should be isolated due to the arrangement of attacks without the approval of Congress.
Murphy said when he was asked if he agreed with: “This is a decision taken by the House of Representatives. This is not a decision taken by the Senate. But it is clear that this is illegal.” It was the reasons Accounting.
The House of Representatives votes whether the president will be isolated, while the Senate votes on the condemnation.
The president can launch military attacks if there is a “declaration of war”, a license of Congress or “a national emergency created on the United States, its lands, its properties, and its armed forces,” according to the decision of the war authorities, a law was passed in 1973.
Last week, the Senate voted against a decision that would require Trump to obtain the approval of Congress before allowing any additional military action against Iran. The vote was almost completely on partisan lines, with Senator Rand Paul, RK, standing with Democrats.
When asked again by the supervisor Christine Wilker whether the Democrat in New York was on the right path through the suggestion of the dismissal, Murphy said that Trump’s behavior during his second term was worse than he was in the first.
Murphy said: “Once again, this is a decision that the house takes. But I will say, I mean, if I compare his behavior in this administration with the behavior that was isolated in the first administration, his behavior in this administration is much worse, more unconstitutional and more constitutional.”
Trump was isolated twice during his first term, although he was not condemned by the Senate. Democrats in the minority in the House of Representatives and the Senate, making any unwanted efforts to move forward.
Murphy described Trump’s decision to add Iran illegal because the president did not seek permission in Congress.
“I have been informed of intelligence – there is no evidence that Iran is an imminent threat to the United States. This makes this attack illegal,” Murphy said in a statement in the hours that followed the attack. He added that “Congress alone can declare preventive war.”
Trump has repeatedly insisted that the American attacks “blur” Iran’s nuclear facilities, while American officials Also It will take weeks to completely understand the effect of strikes.
A preliminary evaluation of the defense intelligence agency, which was leaked, said that the bombing may only restore the Iranian nuclear program for several months. NBC News mentioned that Diaa It was described as its evaluation “Low confidence”, and Many American officials He said that intelligence indicated that nuclear sites were damaged or destroyed.
Murphy said on Sunday that the Iranian nuclear power “was not obliterated.”
He said if he was the supreme leader, he would not declare strikes.
Murphy said: “No, I did not literally explain the strikes at the present time that we were sitting with the Iranians trying to reach a peaceful settlement,” Murphy said. “The only way to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon is an agreement.”
The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency said in an interview with the CBS News issued on Sunday that Iran could resume enrichment within months.
“The capabilities they have there,” said Rafael Mariano Grossi. To a copy It was released before the interview. “They can have, as you know, within months, within months, I would like to say, some centrifugal waterfalls spin and produce enriched uranium, or less. But as I said, frankly, one cannot claim that everything has disappeared and nothing there is.”
