Last week there was much media coverage of the United Sates House of Representatives voting to approve a resolution ( H. Con. Res. 83 ) commonly described as seeking to prevent the Trump administration from engaging in war against Iran. However, take a look at the wording of the resolution, says foreign intervention opponent and former House member Ron Paul, and you will find that most of the resolution is purposed “to build up animosity” toward Iran. Paul discussed the resolution in a new interview with host Anand Naidoo at the CGTN show The Heat.Indeed, the resolution is chock-full of talking points in favor of war with Iran. It starts with declarations that Iran is “a leading state sponsor of terrorism and engages in a range of destabilizing activities across the Middle East” and that Iran General Qassim Suleimani, whose assassination was carried out upon President Donald Trump’s order, was “the lead architect of much of Iran's destabilizing activities throughout the world.”The resolution goes on to even declare the US has a “national interest” in “supporting the people of Iraq, Iran, and other countries throughout the Middle East who demand an end to government corruption and violations of basic human rights.” That sure sounds like a call for the US to engage in intervention, even including regime-change efforts, in Iran and beyond.The resolution also says the US “has national interests in preserving its partnership with Iraq and other countries in the region.” That does not seem like a call for reduced intervention, especially considering that those other partners presumably include Saudi Arabia and Israel that, aided by the US, have been busy pursuing military attacks across the Middle East.When the resolution, at its conclusion, proclaims its prohibition of US military action against Iran, the resolution also provides exceptions to that prohibition. In these exceptions is an exception that pretty much sums up the main, and deceitful , justification the executive branch has been offering for recent US military actions against Iran. The resolution says it is OK for the “United States Armed Forces to engage in hostilities in or against Iran or any part of its government or Military” if “such use of the Armed Forces is necessary and appropriate to defend against an imminent armed attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its Armed Forces.”So much for Congress standing up against the executive branch and standing up for peace.Read the resolution here:CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONResolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring),SECTION 1. TERMINATION OF USE OF UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES TO ENGAGE IN HOSTILITIES IN OR AGAINST IRAN.