NEW STATEMENT 🚨 CIP Executive Vice President @mattduss.bsky.social issued the following response to reports that the United States and Iran have reached a ceasefire agreement to be signed by the end of the week: #Iran 🇮🇷 #UnitedStates 🇺🇸

It took two decades but we’ve gone from a majority of Congress voting for a war of choice to voting against one. It reflects Americans’ broad opposition to the human, economic and moral costs of the reflexive militarism that has long defined the US foreign policy elite. apnews.com/article/iran...

House approves war powers resolution to halt military action against Iran, in a rebuke of Trump

The House for the first time has approved a war powers resolution that would halt the U.S. military action against Iran.

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This report on horrific assaults leaves no doubt whatsoever that a wide swath of Israeli security units have been credibly accused of committing gross violations of human rights. The Leahy Law requires that U.S. security assistance to implicated units cease at once. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

Opinion | The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians

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NEW: 30 lawmakers led by @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social press Trump to share intel on Israeli nuclear program “The concerns about nuclear escalation are shared by some inside the Trump administration, who say Israel’s red lines may not be adequately understood” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Some Democrats press Trump to break silence on Israel’s nuclear arsenal

A letter from 30 lawmakers calls on the U.S. to expose Israel’s weapons program, which it doesn’t acknowledge and was built in secret beginning in the late 1950s.

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Rats infest Gaza’s tent camps, gnawing on children’s fingers and toes and spreading disease. The head of Gaza's largest hospital said he expects the problem to worsen as summer approaches and amid an Israeli ban on pest control materials such as rat poison. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Rats infest Gaza's tent camps, biting children and spreading disease

Rats and parasites are spreading through Gaza's tent camps for ​displaced Palestinians, biting children's fingers and toes as they sleep, gnawing through people's few remaining treasured possessions, ...

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NEW: Sen. @kaine.senate.gov will force a vote today on a measure to block US forces from being engaged in hostilities against Cuba. This is another critical constitutional test and effort to restrain a president committing illegal acts of war across the globe. www.kaine.senate.gov/press-releas...

Kaine, Schiff, & Gallego Announce Vote on Cuba War Powers Resolution Today | U.S. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Adam Schiff (D-CA), and Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) announced that the Senate will vote today on...

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Starting at 11AM eastern:

Center for International Policy@cipolicy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

TODAY🚨: Ending the US-Israeli War on Iran and Lebanon Webinar Join CIP, @winwithoutwar.bsky.social, and regional experts to discuss the US-Iran ceasefire and explore other aspects of the ongoing crisis in the Middle East. Register now: internationalpolicy.org/event/ending...

Israeli settler terrorists just attacked a school, murdering a child. Arming and providing settlers military backing is the official policy of Israel, whose ministers openly incite violence against Palestinians. It’s ethnic cleansing and US taxpayers are arming it. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Two Palestinians killed in West Bank village attacked by Israeli settlers, witnesses say

Two Palestinians, including a 14-year-old boy, were killed in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Tuesday after ​Israeli settlers and soldiers opened fire, witnesses said, while in Gaza health officials...

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Then they can pay for their weapons and fight their wars themselves. Keep American taxpayers and servicemembers out of it.

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 4mo ago

Israeli voters are against a ceasefire with Iran, and think Netanyahu has not gone far enough. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

I got to know the views of Maine’s second district pretty well when I worked for a Maine Senator. You won’t find finer folks anywhere—or any who are less supportive of costly wars of choice. They want good jobs, affordable heat and healthcare. Golden’s vote was not one reflecting their interests.

Dylan Williams@dylanwilliams.bsky.social · 4mo ago

With a final tally of 213-214, the war powers resolution to disengage US forces from the war on Iran failed by a single vote. Representative Jared Golden of Maine was the sole Democratic lawmaker to vote against the measure. Had he voted for it, it would have passed, handing Trump an historic loss.

With a final tally of 213-214, the war powers resolution to disengage US forces from the war on Iran failed by a single vote. Representative Jared Golden of Maine was the sole Democratic lawmaker to vote against the measure. Had he voted for it, it would have passed, handing Trump an historic loss.

Sending Israel more weapons and military aid remains prohibited under US law as it continues to restrict Gaza aid: “Living conditions of Palestinians remain dire, while Israel continues to deliberately obstruct aid, which is translating into entirely preventable deaths” www.msf.org/not-ceasefir...

This is not a ceasefire: Life in Gaza continues to be suffocated six months on | MSF

Six months since a fragile and ineffective ceasefire was implemented in Gaza, Palestine, Israeli forces continue their violent attacks and expand their military control of the Strip.

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“The United States and all other countries need to cut off weapons to Israel immediately. Full arms embargo.” – CIP VP of Government Affairs @dylanwilliams.bsky.social in @commondreams.org ⬇️ www.commondreams.org/news/israel-...

Called my Senators and Representative, urging them to cut their recess short, show up in DC, and prepare articles of impeachment against Trump for violating "18 US Code § 1091 prohibiting the crime of genocide," as so clearly explained by my @cipolicy.bsky.social colleague @dylanwilliams.bsky.social

As the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran escalates, Trump may deploy thousands of additional troops to the region for a ground assault inside Iran and has quadrupled his request for war funding from Congress. @cipolicy.bsky.social is holding an emergency online public briefing TODAY at 3pm. Register below.

Center for International Policy@cipolicy.bsky.social · 5mo ago

TODAY🚨 Join @joecirin.bsky.social, @sinatoossi.bsky.social & Robert Malley for an online briefing on the escalating war in Iran and its implications for regional stability, human security, and global risk. Moderated by CIP President & CEO @nancyokail.bsky.social

Trump’s $200 billion request amounts to over $1,225 from every working American to pay for an unnecessary and unauthorized war that he claims we already won. Lawmakers who vote to fund the war won’t just be voting to continue it, they’ll be voting to support another forever war. Not one more dime.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 5mo ago

Exclusive: The Pentagon asked the White House to approve a more than $200 billion request to Congress to fund the war in Iran, according to an administration official, a new ask that will likely run into resistance from lawmakers opposed to the conflict.

We are seeing the Iran war become a quagmire in real time. Asking U.S. taxpayers to spend $50 billion on a war Trump claims we have already won was outrageous enough. Quadrupling that within a week shows a total lack of understanding or control over what he has gotten us into. Not one more dime.

Jeff Stein@jeffstein.bsky.social · 5mo ago

SCOOP: The Pentagon asked the White House today for more than *$200 billion* for Iran war supplemental, sources say Some in WH think Congress won't support b/c it's so big Will tee up giant battle in Congress My last story for WaPo: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

“The new war in Iran is very unpopular… worst-ever-support-for-war-when-it-started unpopular. With just 38% of Americans in favor, support for bombing Iran is lower than retrospective support for the war in Iraq was in 2014.” — pollster @gelliottmorris.com www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-us-i...

All the polls on the U.S. war in Iran so far

According to a simple average of new high-quality surveys, 38% of Americans approve and 49% disapprove of U.S. military action in Iran. When ignoring "don't know" respondents, 56% disapprove

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The Kaine-Paul resolution to remove U.S. forces from hostilities against Iran will fail to advance on a vote of 47-53.

Dylan Williams@dylanwilliams.bsky.social · 5mo ago

As the Senate vote begins on the Kaine-Paul resolution to remove US forces from hostilities against Iran, Democrats are at their desks, while the Republican side is empty. The message is unmistakable. For Democrats this is a solemn moment. For Republicans it’s just another vote.

As the Senate vote begins on the Kaine-Paul resolution to remove US forces from hostilities against Iran, Democrats are at their desks, while the Republican side is empty. The message is unmistakable. For Democrats this is a solemn moment. For Republicans it’s just another vote.

👋 Former State Department War Powers lawyer here. This statement by Rubio is false. As @tessbridgeman.bsky.social and I wrote in January: www.justsecurity.org/128517/war-p...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Marco Rubio: "No presidential administration has ever accepted the War Powers Act as constitutional"

“Israeli strikes hit hospital in Tehran, witnesses tell Reuters” Yesterday it was a school, today it is a hospital. Yesterday children were buried under the rubble of their classrooms, today babies had to be moved from intensive care in their incubators. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Israeli strikes hit hospital in Tehran, witnesses tell Reuters

Israeli strikes hit a hospital in Tehran’s Gandhi Street area, two witnesses told Reuters on Sunday, saying the hospital was badly damaged and patients were being taken out.

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How awful and unnecessary.

Dean Obeidallah@deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The three Americans were killed at a military base in Middle East. Did Trump and Netanyahu not plan that Iran would fire missiles at US bases? Or did they not care?!!! www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...

“Iran reels as more than 100 children reportedly killed in school bombing” The United States armed and funded Israel’s war crimes in Gaza. Now such atrocities are being inflicted on Iran’s people, but this time the United States is a full participant. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

‘The most bitter news’: Iran reels as more than 100 children reportedly killed in school bombing

The building appears to be among many devastated in Trump’s ‘major combat operations’ as long expected attacks arrive

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Iranian authorities and Red Crescent Society officials report that more than 100 people, most of them girls, were killed at a primary school during joint U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran. Let’s be clear: Slaughtering children in a school is an atrocity and a war crime. www.ft.com/content/055d...

Strike on Iranian primary school kills 108, authorities say

Girls’ education facility hit as US and Israel launch joint military operation

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Running list of lawmakers opposed to the US and Israel's illegal war with Iran. If your elected official isn't on this list, make note, and primary the F out of them. docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Here is a running list of statements by U.S. lawmakers opposed to Trump launching a major military assault on Iran: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

AIPAC is eagerly cheerleading the illegal US and Israeli war on Iran. It has long sabotaged diplomacy with Iran and pushed to use the US Armed Forces against it. It is a pro-war lobby that helps to put American forces and millions of civilians across the Mideast in harm’s way.

Trump explicitly calls his major military assault on Iran a war aimed at regime change. Congress has not declared war on Iran or authorized the use of military force against it. The launch of these illegal attacks is a crime of aggression—a grave violation of international law.

The Senate and House of Representatives will vote next week on measures to block the unauthorized use of U.S. Armed Forces against Iran. Here is a growing list of statements by lawmakers opposed to Trump recklessly starting another costly and bloody war: docs.google.com/document/d/e...