US House votes to stop Iran war in rebuke to Trump

The Republican-led House voted on Wednesday to halt the war with Iran, breaking with US President Donald Trump on an unpopular foreign conflict that is taking an escalating economic toll on Americans.

The 215-208 vote showed worries over the war spreading in the president’s own party five months before congressional elections.

Last month, a Senate resolution to end the war also advanced past a procedural hurdle for the first time, though that legislation has not yet come to a formal vote.

The House vote will not end US military attacks on Iran. The Senate would still have to pass the resolution and provisions in the 1973 War Powers Act that the House invoked are legally controversial anyway.

Still, the House’s new stance trumpets to a global audience the president’s increasing isolation on the war as talks on an interim peace deal drag on and tensions flare across the Middle East.

The US and Iran clashed again overnight, with Kuwait and Bahrain caught in the crossfire of the most serious strikes since a ceasefire went into effect in early April.