Lawmakers caution against unilateral strike on Iran by SeanDNaylor
Two days after President Trump said that he would “like to avoid” war with Iran, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said Wednesday that the United States should not strike Iran in response to recent attacks on Saudi oil facilities, and that it would need a new congressional authorization to do so.
But Waltz disagreed with the other Democratic representative on the panel, Seth Moulton of Massachusetts, when it came to the effectiveness of the Trump administration’s strategy with regard to Iran. After withdrawing from the nuclear deal with Iran agreed to by the administration of his predecessor, President Barack Obama, Trump has imposed a series of financial sanctions on Iran.
But Moulton argued forcefully that Trump’s approach was backfiring. Pulling out of the nuclear deal has not deterred the Iranians from seeking to develop a nuclear weapon, he said. “In fact, they’ve been put into a corner where they’ve said this is the only thing we can do now,” said Moulton, who is also on the Armed Services Committee.
Waltz predicted that gaining relief from the sanctions is the Iranians’ “strategic goal,” and that they would continue to escalate the confrontation in the Gulf “until stopped.” Waltz, a former Army Special Forces officer, said his preferred response to the attacks would be to respond “by, with and through our allies.” But Waltz nodded affirmatively when Smith said that Saudi Arabia was “problematic,” because of its poor human rights record and its history of fostering Sunni Islamist extremism.
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