Iran, Israel and Donald Trump
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President Trump is calling for Iran's "unconditional surrender" amid an escalating conflict with Israel. Former Deputy National Security Advisor for the Obama Administration Ben Rhodes joins Chris Jansing to explain how dropping a bomb on Iran’s Fordo facility “puts the United States directly involved in offensive,
Trump indicates US involved in Israeli attacks on Iran in social media post. "We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran."
President Donald Trump is growing increasingly warm to using US military assets to strike Iranian nuclear facilities and souring on the idea of a diplomatic solution to end Tehran’s escalating conflict with Israel,
President Trump spent the first months of his term holding back Israel’s push for an assault on Iran’s nuclear program. With the war underway, his posture has gyrated as he weighs sending in the U.S.
On June 15, Trump rejected an Israeli plan to kill Ali Khamenei, a senior U.S. official told USA TODAY. The U.S. official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive talks, confirmed that Israel was presented with an opportunity to kill Khamenei but Trump objected to the plan and steered it off.
When Israel launched its series of strikes against Iran last week, it also issued a number of dire warnings about the country’s nuclear program, suggesting Iran was fast approaching a point of no return in its quest to obtain nuclear weapons and that the strikes were necessary to preempt that outcome.
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene criticized U.S. involvement in the Israel-Iran conflict, saying that supporters of President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement do not support foreign intervention.
The resolution requires congressional debate and a vote before the United States takes any offensive measures against Iran.