India, July 14 -- US President Trump has sent a formal notification to Congress declaring that military hostilities against Iran have officially resumed, executing a contentious legal manoeuvre designed to unlock a new 60-day window for unilateral warfare without legislative approval.

The notification, dated Friday and reviewed by lawmakers on Monday, explicitly marks July 7 as the formal resumption of combat operations. The administration contends that the collapse of a fragile, weeks-long diplomatic ceasefire effectively resets the statutory clock mandated by the 1973 War Powers Resolution. This legal interpretation allows the White House to sustain an intensifying campaign of airstrikes and naval blockades in the Persian Gulf without ...