The US House of Representatives votes to end US involvement in Iran war in symbolic move
The resolution, backed by both Democrats and a small number of Republicans, calls for the withdrawal of US forces amid escalating political confrontation over the conflict with Iran.
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US President Donald Trump on Thursday denounced a vote in the House of Representatives that supported withdrawing US forces from the Iran war, saying that this “unpatriotic” move had hindered negotiations with Tehran.
Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform that the largely symbolic vote came “in the midst of my final negotiations to end the war with the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
He added: “Who can do something so unpatriotic? They know where the negotiations have reached.”
A merely symbolic vote
The US House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a resolution ordering the withdrawal of US forces from the war against Iran, in a political blow to Trump, who began this conflict on February 28.
The resolution, which was passed with the support of four Republican lawmakers joining the Democrats, is largely symbolic given the US president’s veto power if it is approved by the Senate.
A total of 215 lawmakers voted in favor of the resolution, compared to 208 against. The measure was introduced by a senior Democratic member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Democratic members of the committee said in a statement on the platform X that the vote sends “a strong and clear message in the name of the American people to Donald Trump: it is time to end his illegal and unpopular war that he chose to launch against Iran.”