Trump bombs Iran despite MAGA warnings
During his electoral campaign last year, President Donald Trump arose as a peacemaker, promising to “put an end to endless foreign wars”. Now he has opted for war, joining the Israel conflict with Iran. The American bombers attacked three of the main nuclear installations in the country overnight.
It turns out that President Trump is more a traditional republican of “peace through the strength” than the isolationist “America First”, many of his Maga base hoped or even assumed that he would be.
In an address at the Washington Nation late Saturday evening, Trump described the American attacks on Ford, Natanz and Isfahan a “spectacular military success”, saying that the enrichment sites of Iranian uranium had been “completely erased”. It was not clear if or how the United States had confirmed the extent of damage.
Why we wrote this
President Trump’s decision to strike Iran inserts the United States into the type of conflict that he has promised to avoid, but has prioritized the neutralization of Iran’s nuclear program.
“Iran, the Middle East intimidator, must now make peace,” said Trump from the White House. Vice-president JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the defense secretary Pete Hegseth stood behind him.
Israel went to war against Iran on June 13, targeting its nuclear program and killing key scientists and military commanders, including the head of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard. Since then, Mr. Trump had faced the pressure from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to deploy “bunker-business bombs” of 30,000 pounds against Iran. These are carried by B-2 stealth bombers, which only the United States has.
On Saturday evening, after the B-2 finished their mission, Trump announced on social networks that the three Iranian sites had been attacked, with “a complete payload of bombs … abandoned on the primary site, Fordow”.
“It is now time of peace!” He wrote on Truth Social.
Trump warns Iran against reprisals
But key questions have remained, including the way Iran will react and if the United States and Israel determine that monitoring attacks are necessary to completely neutralize the nuclear program of Iran.
Mr. Trump abandoned the 2015 multi -core nuclear agreement with Iran, known as the Complete Complete Action Plan, or JCPOA, in his first mandate. He then said that he could negotiate a better agreement – and pushed one with Iran for months.
Trump said Thursday that he would make a decision within two weeks of the opportunity to use the military force against Iran. But two days later, he pressed the relaxation.
He followed the attack with a threat in all the caps on a social truth: “Any reprisals from Iran against the United States of America will be welcomed with a much greater force than what was observed this evening.”
Congress response
The Republican leaders of the Chamber and the Senate fell online behind Mr. Trump.
“The decisive action of the president prevents the greatest sponsor of state terrorism in the world, which sings” death in America “, from obtaining the deadliest weapon on the planet,” said the president of the Mike Johnson chamber of Louisiana in a press release. “This is the first policy in America in action.”
“I am with President Trump,” said the head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, of the southern Dakota, on X.
However, not all Republicans were on board. “It is not constitutional,” said representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky, on X, reference to the fact that the editors assigned to the congress the power to declare war.
The head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, a Democrat of New York, echoes the declaration of the Massie representative: “We must apply the law on war powers and I urge the leader Thune to put it immediately on the Senate soil.”
But Mr. Trump did not leave the resolutions of the Congress on the powers of war entering him in the past, and was not expected at that time. The same goes for his main supporters who should rally by his side on his decision to bomb Iran.
During an instructor breakfast last week, Trump Ally Steve Bannon told journalists that he had opposed an American military intervention in Iran, but if that happened, he expected that the president’s supporters will rally around him.
