{"id":67633,"date":"2026-02-28T13:57:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/us-lawmakers-condemn-trump-over-iran-strikes-acts-of-war-unauthorized-by-congress\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T13:57:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:57:42","slug":"us-lawmakers-condemn-trump-over-iran-strikes-acts-of-war-unauthorized-by-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/us-lawmakers-condemn-trump-over-iran-strikes-acts-of-war-unauthorized-by-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"US lawmakers condemn Trump over Iran strikes: \u2018acts of war unauthorized by Congress\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Congress swiftly denounced the president\u2019s military action against the Islamic Republic alongside Israel<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/feb\/28\/israel-attacks-iran-as-blasts-heard-in-tehran-live-updates\">US-Israeli attack on Iran \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/28\/us-israel-launch-strikes-attack-iran-what-we-know-so-far-latest\">US and Israel strikes on Iran: what we know so far<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s failure to build a case with the US public for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/28\/us-israel-launch-strikes-attack-iran-what-we-know-so-far-latest\">striking Iran <\/a>and then going ahead apparently without even alerting Congress\u2019s key national security experts \u2013 the so-called \u201cgang of eight\u201d \u2013 has fuelled fierce domestic criticism of the military action against the Islamic Republic on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Belying the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/28\/iran-vows-no-leniency-reprisal-attacks-israel-us-air-bases\">gravity of Saturday\u2019s attacks<\/a>, the president spent just three minutes of Tuesday\u2019s record-length one hour and 48 minute State of the Union address trying to explain why the need to act against a regime that had been a strategic foe for decades had suddenly become so urgent and whose nuclear facilities he claimed to have \u201cobliterated\u201d in previous strikes last June.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/28\/iran-attack-us-political-reaction\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Congress swiftly denounced the president\u2019s military action against the Islamic Republic alongside Israel US-Israeli attack on Iran \u2013 live updates US and Israel strikes on Iran: what we know so far Donald Trump\u2019s failure to build a case with the US public for striking Iran and then going ahead apparently without even alerting &#8230; <a title=\"US lawmakers condemn Trump over Iran strikes: \u2018acts of war unauthorized by Congress\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/us-lawmakers-condemn-trump-over-iran-strikes-acts-of-war-unauthorized-by-congress\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US lawmakers condemn Trump over Iran strikes: \u2018acts of war unauthorized by Congress\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}