U.S. lawmakers condemned U.S. President Donald Trump for “unauthorized act of war” against Iran on Saturday, calling the military action "unjustified".
The United States and Israel on Saturday launched combat operations against Iran, killing at least 201 people.
Iran's state media confirmed Sunday that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in U.S.-Israeli attacks on Saturday.
In his statement on social media, Illinois Democratic Governor Jay Robert Pritzker called the military action unjustified, unauthorized by Congress, and without a clear objective.
Representative Thomas Massie, Republican of Kentucky, criticized the U.S. military actions towards Iran as "acts of war unauthorized by Congress".
Former Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, once a close ally of President Trump, also condemned the attacks.
At least 24 of Iran's 31 provinces were affected by U.S. and Israeli strikes, the Iranian Red Crescent Society reported on Saturday, adding that at least 201 people were killed and 747 injured in the joint attacks on Iran.
The airstrikes struck a girls' school in southern Iran, and up to 160 people could have been killed there, said Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei. Iran's president condemned the incident as "inhumane".
US lawmakers condemn Trump for "unauthorized act of war"
