US: Senate votes to end to Trump’s Iran war in rare rebuke

The US Senate passed a resolution on Tuesday directing President Donald Trump to end US military action against Iran, marking a rare bipartisan rebuke of the White House while it pushes for peace with Tehran.

The largely symbolic resolution was voted 50-48 by the Republican-majority Senate, after earlier clearing the House of Representatives with Republican support.

As a “concurrent resolution,” it does not require Trump’s signature and carries disputed legal weight.

The vote reflected concern in Congress over a war that began with US and Israeli strikes on Iran in February.

It also is one of the handful of times Republicans

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