Congress may impede Biden’s administration to save JCPOA

TEHRAN - The Biden administration is caught between critics in Congress and European allies over rejoining the JCPOA to restrict Iran’s nuclear program without accepting Tehran’s demands for financial relief, according to the New York Times.

American conservative newspaper wants Biden to send any nuclear pact to Congress for approval

TEHRAN - Iranian Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has demanded that the United States lift all economic sanctions before the Islamic republic will dial back its uranium enrichment operations, according to Washington Times.

Congress will likely put up barrier in the way of Biden to rejoin nuclear deal

TEHRAN - The new Biden administration may find it difficult to revive the nuclear deal endorsed by the UN Security Council in 2015 due to the likely opposition by Congress, according to Politico, an American magazine.

Deranged Trump may start war against Iran in final days: Vietnam War whistleblower

Daniel Ellsberg, a whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers, which revealed the U.S. government had lied to the American public about the Vietnam War, has blamed Donald Trump for the Nov. 27 assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in order to find a pretext to start a large-scale war against Iran.

Pro-Trump rioters storm U.S. Capitol as Congress certifies Biden’s win

Supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday while Congress was certifying the Electoral College's votes for Joe Biden’s victory in the November election.

How presidential grandstanding can simply ignore U.S. Congress War Power Act to wage war against other nations!

The War Powers Act, which once was approved by the Congress to mandate the president to get authorization to launch military operation overseas, can be easily regarded as an unconstitutional encroachment on executive power by the U.S. president under the pretext of protecting national interest.

How militarism can simply change result of elections in the US!

Even thinking about deployment of military troops at poll stations amid the 2020 presidential elections in the United States under security pretexts is worrisome as the elections under military control are regarded by the world monitoring bodies as the blatant violation of democracy, so ignoring the internationally-accepted principle of the free-military elections will push the country into a deep dictatorship by the men of weapons. 

How a Rockefeller by-birth man initiates legal path to bypass U.S. Congress to make key decisions!

The founding fathers of the War Powers Resolution, including George D. O’Neill, once embarked vigilantly on initiating a faction-like group consisting of the wings of the Democratic and Republican parties to ultimately marginalize the Congress in making very important decisions, including declaring or ending a war.  

Congressional committee says Trump’s justification for Soleimani assassination ‘continues to change’

TEHRAN - United States House Foreign Affairs Committee has slammed U.S. President Donald Trump’s justification for assassinating Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.

By Ramin Hossein Abadian

Baghdad’s definite response to U.S. Congress’s hostile plan about Iraq

TEHRAN - The U.S. continues its hostile actions and attempts to limit relations between Iran and its regional allies. It seems that Washington does not intend to consider the reverse results of its actions.

By staff and agency

U.S. Congress redoubles efforts to limit Trump’s Iran war powers

Twenty-eight lawmakers from both the Republican and Democratic parties are pushing legislation to ban the use of funds for military action against Iran without congressional authorization, according to an internal letter obtained by Foreign Policy.

U.S. lawmakers introduce resolution for U.S. re-entry into JCPOA

TEHRAN – Three U.S. lawmakers have introduced a resolution to urge the Trump administration to re-enter the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly known as the Iran nuclear agreement.

By Martin Love

Those who temporarily are losing badly often do win

By the time this column is printed it’s more than likely Brett Kavanaugh will have won a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, voted in by the slight majority of GOP senators in the U.S Congress… to the dismay and consternation of most all thoughtful Americans, including (notably) many hundreds of professors at law schools across the country.

Bipartisan amendment limits U.S. president over striking Iran

TEHRAN - A bipartisan amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday, May 24, stated Congress’s position that no law exists which gives the U.S. president the power to launch a military strike against Iran.

U.S. Congress unwilling to quit Iran deal: expert

TEHRAN – The U.S. Congress is not inclined to withdraw from the Iran nuclear agreement, but it is willing to modify it, a U.S. expert said, noting that the legislative body is evaluating the stances of their European allies.

By Maria Cardona

Trump's hateful remarks bring new level of shame to the nation

President Donald Trump, in a meeting Thursday with lawmakers discussing the Dream Act and immigration policy, tellingly asked why would we want more immigrants from “shithole countries?” He was specifically referring to immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti and Africa.