{"id":93867,"date":"2026-05-02T06:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T06:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/93867\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T06:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T06:42:07","slug":"trump-tells-congress-the-iran-war-has-terminated-as-legal-deadline-hits-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/93867\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump tells Congress the Iran war has \u2018terminated\u2019 as legal deadline hits \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere has been no exchange of fire between the United States and Iran since April 7, 2026,\u201d Trump wrote,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/04\/21\/donald-trump-iran-war-ceasefire-extended-00885425\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">noting a ceasefire\u00a0<\/a>he has indefinitely extended. \u201cThe hostilities that began on February 28, 2026, have terminated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter also comes amid stalled talks and a continued military blockade of Iranian ports. The president told reporters before leaving the White House for Florida on Friday that he had given Iran \u201ca final proposal\u201d but expressed pessimism about being able to reach an agreement with the country\u2019s \u201cdisjointed\u201d government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve made strides, but I\u2019m not sure they\u2019ll ever get there,\u201d he said. \u201cI would say I\u2019m not happy. \u2026 They want to make a deal, but I\u2019m not satisfied.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/04\/30\/hegseth-iran-war-legal-deadline-congress-00900826?utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_source=dlvr.it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">previewed the legal argument<\/a>\u00a0that the administration would use to continue the Middle East campaign Thursday on Capitol Hill. He told senators in a hearing that the ceasefire \u201cmeans the 60-day clock pauses, or stops.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 1973 War Powers Resolution requires U.S. forces to withdraw from a conflict 60 days after the president notifies Congress, unless lawmakers vote to authorize continued military action. The White House can seek to extend military operations for another 30 days for the purposes of winding down the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Cracks in the almost uniform GOP support for Trump emerged Thursday, when Sen.\u00a0Susan Collins\u00a0of Maine\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/04\/30\/congress\/gop-unity-cracks-iran-war-collins-00901408\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">became the first Republican senator to switch votes<\/a>\u00a0since the war began in February. Collins, the GOP\u2019s most endangered incumbent in the coming midterms, had telegraphed that she wouldn\u2019t support the war after the legal deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThere has been no exchange of fire between the United States and Iran since April 7, 2026,\u201d Trump&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[387,33134,177,648,3075,38,10580,34,49,179,5257,1403,772,2040,1913,51,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-93867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-air-defense","9":"tag-benchmarks","10":"tag-conflict","11":"tag-defense","12":"tag-defense-budgets","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-european-defense","15":"tag-iran","16":"tag-middle-east","17":"tag-military","18":"tag-multinational-defense-programs","19":"tag-pentagon","20":"tag-pete-hegseth","21":"tag-ports","22":"tag-tim-kaine","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116503625226429816","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}