Statewide Iowa (RI) — The two Iowa Republicans who serve in the U.S. Senate are expressing support for President Trump’s objectives in Iran and for the soldiers involved.
Senator Joni Ernst says President Trump is standing up for American lives that have been taken by the Iranian regime and its terrorist proxies. Ernst, a combat veteran, says Trump’s decision to strike Iran will bring peace and stability to the Middle East and the world.
Senator Chuck Grassley says Trump gave Iran plenty of time to negotiate, and “regime change is badly needed,” according to Grassley. Grassley says the U.S. cannot allow unpredictable leadership in Iran to have a nuclear bomb.
Third District Congressman Zach Nunn says as a combat veteran, he does not take military action lightly, but Nunn says Iran slaughtered thousands of Iranians who bravely stood up against the regime, and the future of Iran rests in the hands of the Iranian people.
First District Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks, who served as a nurse in the Army, said for decades Iran sponsored terrorism and openly threatened to obliterate the United States, saying that reign of terror has come to an end. Miller-Meeks says the world cannot allow a nuclear-armed Iran, but she also says the U.S. cannot rush blindly into another endless conflict, so she looks forward to a full briefing on what comes next.
Fourth District Congressman Randy Feenstra, who’s running for governor, says Iran’s nuclear ambitions are dangerous. He agrees with President Trump that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon, and this operation works to prevent that from happening.
Second District Congresswoman Ashley Hinson, who’s running for the U.S. Senate, says Iran has been run by tyrants, and the operation makes clear that the U.S. will not sit down while Iran threatens our troops, our allies, including Israel, or our homeland.
The two Democrats who are competing for the chance to face Hinson are both expressing reservations about a prolonged war with Iran:
State Senator Zach Wahls says his generation grew up witnessing and experiencing the horrors of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, and congress must act to keep the U.S. from being dragged into another war of regime change.
State Representative Josh Turek says while there is no question Iran’s regime is brutal and repressive, bombing Iran is not the same thing as bringing lasting change to Iran. Turek also says Washington has again shown it’s quicker to send working-class kids into combat than do anything to make their lives at home easier.
Republican Jim Carlin, who is also running for the U.S. Senate, has not issued a statement about Iran.
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