The possibility of a US blow against Iran revealed divisions between the ranks of supporters who brought the president Donald Trump To power, some of them urge him not to put the country into a new war in the Middle East, with the growing voices opposed to Washington’s support for Tel Aviv in its attack on Iran.
Some of Trump’s most prominent allies found from Republicans They themselves in an unusual position in a difference with a president who largely shares a national policy that calls for avoiding conflicts with other countries.
Lieutenant Steve Bannon, one of the voices influencing the “America First” coalition yesterday, urged caution about the US military’s accession to Israel in an attempt to destroy the Iranian nuclear program, in the absence of a diplomatic agreement.
“We cannot do it again … we will tear the country. We should not repeat the experience of Iraq,” Bannon told reporters in the event sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor in Washington.
The anti -military intervention from the Republican Party is observing a rapid anxiety of Trump’s shift from seeking a peaceful diplomatic settlement with Iran to the possibility of the United States supporting the Israeli military campaign, including the use of a “supernatural” bomb weighing 30,000 pounds.
Caveats
These opposition criticisms that Trump may face from a wing “to make America a great” right “in the event of his involvement in the fighting, a step that Iran warned that it will have severe consequences for the Americans without specifying what these consequences are.
If Trump decides to enter into the military conflict, this will be a sharp deviation from his usual caution over involvement in external conflicts. This can affect his campaign to enhance good relations with the Gulf, and distracts his attention from his efforts to negotiate ending the war in Ukraine and conclude commercial agreements with the countries of the world.
The coalition “Let’s make America a great again” Trump to the presidency in the 2016 and 2024 elections and still has great importance for him, although the American constitution prevents him from running for a third term.
The anger of this rule may lead to the erosion of Trump’s popularity and affect the chances of Republicans to retain the control of Congress in the midterm elections for the year 2026.
I don’t want to fight but
But Trump seemed not worried that some in his base may oppose him at least on this issue.
“The supporters love me today more compared to the time of elections … I only want one thing that Iran will not have a nuclear weapon,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Wednesday.
He added that some of his supporters are “a little happy now”, but others agree with him that Iran cannot become a nuclear force.
“I don’t want to fight. But if the choice is between fighting or having a nuclear weapon, you should do what you have to do.”
Mike Short, a former vice president ally of Mike Pence, described the division about Iran within the Republican Party as “a very big rift.”
Attempt to reassure
And try JD Vans The US Vice President to reduce the controversy with a social media post defending Trump.
“People are right in their concern about external involvement after a foolish foreign policy for 25 years. But I think the president has some confidence in this matter,” he wrote.
Now, supporters and opponents are awaiting Trump’s decision, who said yesterday, Wednesday, that he has some ideas on how to move forward, but he did not make a final decision.
reconnaissance
A poll of Fox News revealed that 46% of Americans oppose Israel’s decision to launch military strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
The US network poll added that 81% of Americans believe that what is happening in the Middle East affects life in the United States.
The poll indicated that 43% of Americans oppose the United States providing financial aid to Israel for military purposes.
Since the dawn of Friday, Israel, with implicit support from the United States, began a massive attack on Iran, its name.Rising lionDuring it, nuclear and military facilities were bombed in different areas, and prominent military leaders and nuclear scientists assassinated, and they also targeted civil and regional headquarters, including the official TV building.
On the same day, Iran started an operation it called.The sincere promise-3 ″ to respond to this attack with a series of ballistic missile strikes and inscriptions, according to Israeli sources so far, killing dozens of Israelis and wounding hundreds, as well as major material damage that affected buildings and vehicles in Tel Aviv and Haifa and a number of cities.