Earlier, amid explosive US-Iran tensions following last week’s drone incident, President Trump bragged that he would not “need an exit strategy” and that the US could “obliterate” Iran if war broke out. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif countered by warning that whoever starts a war “will not be the one ending it.”
US Senate lawmakers are going to vote Friday to attempt to amend the National Defence Authorisation Act which would give them authority to block the president from taking military action against any country without explicit approval from Congress.