News about Donald Trump • Iran

Although the United States has formally declared war only 5 times and these declarations cover a total of 11 separate instances against specific nations, there are currently 137 military conflicts included in these lists, 8 of which are ongoing.

It provides that the president can send the U.S. Armed Forces into action abroad by Congress, "statutory authorization", or in case of "a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces".

The United States attributes the worsening of relations to the 1979–81 Iran hostage crisis, Iran's repeated human rights abuses since the Islamic Revolution, different restrictions on using spy methods on democratic revolutions by the US, its anti-Western ideology and its nuclear program.