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Joseph Gedeon and Chris Stein in Washington

Senate Republicans block Democratic effort to end US war with Iran

Two men walk past the bomb-damaged Shahid Beheshti University building in Tehran, with rubble scattered outside
Shahid Beheshti University in the Velenjak district of Tehran, Iran, after a US military strike on 6 April. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a Democratic effort to end the US war with Iran, voting down a House-passed war powers resolution as the conflict that has killed 19 American service members passed the 200-day mark.

The measure, which passed the House last week with bipartisan support, failed in the Senate by a 49-50 vote. Senate Democrats, led by the minority leader, Chuck Schumer, and the senator Andy Kim of New Jersey, forced the vote under the War Powers Resolution, which allows lawmakers to bring such measures to the floor.

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