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Senate Deal on Iran War Powers Could Force Trump to Seek Approval or End Fighting

U.S. senators have agreed on an Iran war powers resolution and could vote as early as Thursday on a measure requiring Donald Trump to end the war with Iran unless Congress authorizes its continuation.

The confrontation with Iran is now running into a test of presidential power at home.

Senators have reached a deal on a war powers resolution related to Iran and could bring it to a vote as early as Thursday. The measure would require Donald Trump to end the war with Iran unless Congress votes to authorize its continuation.

In parallel, another report says the Senate could vote as early as Thursday on a separate measure that would require Trump to end the war with Iran unless Congress authorizes continuation, underscoring how lawmakers are looking for ways to narrow the White House’s room for maneuver.

These moves come as events around Iran remain tense. In Iran’s southeastern Sistan and Baluchestan province, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Brigadier General Hossein Zarifi, commander of the Shahid Sajjad operational base, was killed during an IRGC Ground Forces operation. In neighboring Iraq, the IRGC fired three drones at a village near Soran in the Kurdistan Region’s Erbil province, striking a location linked to the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran just hours after Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi held indirect talks with U.S. negotiators about a possible end to the conflict.

For the Trump administration, any binding war powers resolution would place new legal and political limits on how long and how far it can prosecute military action against Iran. For Tehran and regional actors, the Senate debate is a signal that U.S. policy may be constrained as much by domestic votes as by events on the ground.

The decisive indicators now will be the exact language of any resolution that reaches the Senate floor, the outcome of the vote, how the House responds, and whether Trump signals he will comply with or contest any new restrictions on his authority.

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