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Military action against Iran formally restarted last week, Trump told lawmakers

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President Trump formally notified Congress that "military action" against Iran restarted last week, according to a letter obtained by CBS News on Monday, as a monthslong ceasefire comes to an end.

Military action "commenced on July 7," the president said in a message dated July 10 and addressed to Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the Senate's president pro tempore.

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