Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hi, I'm Kim Vennell in Whanganui, New Zealand. It's Thursday, March 5th. Today, the Senate fails to limit Trump's war powers. The Iran war widens as the U.S. torpedoes an Iranian Navy ship in the Indo-Pacific and NATO member Turkey gets dragged into the conflict. And the Pentagon threatens to put Anthropic on a no-go list.
Chapter 2: What happened in the Senate regarding Trump's war powers?
This is Reuters World News, bringing you everything you need to know from the front lines in 10 minutes, seven days a week. First, to the latest from Iran. Iran's Revolutionary Guards say they've hit a US tanker in the northern part of the Gulf. According to Iranian state media, the tanker is now on fire. Stay tuned as we'll have more on the widening Iran conflict throughout the podcast.
The U.S. Senate has voted down a move which would stop President Donald Trump from continuing the Iran war. The resolution's aim was to require any military action first be authorized by Congress. The vote breaking along party lines with a majority of Democrats in favor, while most Republicans opposed.
Chapter 3: How did the Iran conflict escalate with the sinking of a navy ship?
Republicans like Senator Roger Wicker from Mississippi. The president understands the weight of war. He was clear-eyed about the risk and he was honest with the American people. And in the House, supporters of the bill, like Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, said it was about Congress reclaiming its constitutional role. He has hurt us again and again, failed us again and again.
And now by launching this unauthorized war of choice, setting fire to our Constitution. The Iran war is now spilling over into other parts of the world. In the Indo-Pacific, a truck carrying bodies of dozens of Iranian sailors arrives at a morgue in Sri Lanka. A US submarine torpedoed their Navy ship off the coast of the island, killing at least 80 people in international waters.
Iran says the US will bitterly regret sinking the ship. And in Hatay, in the south of NATO member Turkey, authorities fished the remnants of a NATO air defence missile from a pond which had intercepted a ballistic missile launched from Iran. It's an attack that raises the question, could NATO get dragged into the war? Here to unpack it is Reuters foreign policy editor Dom Durfee.
It's starting to look more like a regional war, which is what many experts had warned might happen if there were to be an attack on Iran. Don says for Iran, this attempt to stretch the war beyond its borders is deliberate.
I think part of their motivation is that if you can bring the conflict to other countries in the region, including now Turkey, which is a NATO member, that you can create enough chaos that that puts some pressure on the US and Israel. Maybe it creates some political consequences for Donald Trump back at home, such that it affects the US decisions on the war.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears to be attempting to calm the situation after that Iranian missile was intercepted. Warning against any repetitions. But Don says it would likely take much more than that for Turkey to invoke Article 5 and drag NATO into this war. That is the collective defence clause which sets out that an attack on one NATO member is an attack against all of them.
And he says there are a number of other developments to be watching out for, including whether ground forces try to enter Iran from neighboring countries like the Iranian Kurds. Reuters reports the CIA has been consulting with some Iranian Kurdish militias, a coalition of fighters based in the semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region on the Iraq-Iran border. We don't know what the U.S.
involvement would be in that. But what sources have told us is that the intent would be for the Kurds to enter Western Iran, attack security forces, effectively with the idea of drawing some of Iran's military forces
to fight them and potentially open some space for those who oppose the Iranian government to rise up and be a little bit more protected because there's less of a military threat against them. Big tech companies are rallying to defend AI startup Anthropic in its fight with the Pentagon.
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