If Trump Joins Israel-Iran Conflict, U.S. Troops in Mideast Could Be Vulnerable
Iran’s leader vowed that his country would respond to any U.S. involvement in the war with Israel.
Iran’s leader vowed that his country would respond to any U.S. involvement in the war with Israel.
The decision to launch a full-on attack on Iran would be in the gray area between the president’s powers as commander in chief and the Constitution’s mandate that only Congress can declare war.
The president wrote in a social media post that the United States knew his location.
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. military.
Iranian officials have warned that U.S. participation in an attack on its facilities will imperil any chance of the nuclear disarmament deal the president insists he is still interested in pursuing.
Only the U.S. military has the 30,000-pound bomb capable of reaching the facility and the bomber that can carry it.
Brig. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi was appointed to lead the group after his predecessor, Gen. Hossein Salami, was killed in an Israeli airstrike.