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Iran ‘harmful’ to peace, says GOP Rep. who backs Trump on U.S. navy involvement
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Iran ‘harmful’ to peace, says GOP Rep. who backs Trump on U.S. navy involvement

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U.S. Rep. Mike Lawler, of New York’s seventeenth District, marches within the 2025 Israel Day Parade, on New York’s Fifth Avenue, Sunday, Could 18.

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Home Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., agrees with President Trump that Iran can not acquire a nuclear weapon and would help a transfer by the president to strike and totally eradicate Tehran’s nuclear program.

“A nuclear Iran will seek to eradicate Israel and all but ensure WWIII,” Lawler stated in a put up on X. “We cannot allow that to happen. We must stand with Israel.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has confused the risk posed by a nuclear weapon-armed Iran as justification for the strikes carried out over the previous few days, although Iran’s capabilities are up for debate.

Whereas the administration is weighing its choices about whether or not to actively be a part of Israel in its battle in opposition to Iran, Lawler informed Morning Version he helps involvement, “if that is what is required to finish the job.”

An Iranian protester holds up a poster of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in an anti-Israeli gathering in Tehran, Iran, June 13.

Lawler will not be alone in his considering, although some members of his occasion and plenty of Democrats are calling for restraint.

This consists of a number of the president’s most staunch supporters who’ve warned in opposition to such a transfer.

Former Fox Information host Tucker Carlson and former White Home chief strategist Steve Bannon are amongst main conservative voices who need the U.S. to remain out.

“My interest is really simple. I don’t want the United States enmeshed in another Middle Eastern war that doesn’t serve our interests,” Carlson stated on Bannon’s Conflict Room podcast.

Trump yesterday convened a gathering together with his nationwide safety staff. Although no resolution has been made, earlier than the assembly, Trump stated in a put up on Reality Social that his administration’s “patience is wearing thin.”

In a dialog with Morning Version, Lawler spoke to NPR’s Steve Inskeep about what steps the U.S. ought to take almost about Iran.

This interview has been edited for size and readability.

Interview highlights

Steve Inskeep: When President [Trump] says we’ve got management of the skies, are we – which means america – already concerned on this struggle?

Rep. Mike Lawler: I believe realistically, america has equipped Israel with a variety of navy gear and ammunition. As well as, there’s nice intelligence cooperation between our two nations. And I can definitely say that over the course of the previous couple of months, there’s been communication and cooperation as Israel made the choice to take a preemptive strike in opposition to a nuclear Iran and its continued threats to eradicate the state of Israel.

Inskeep: Only a few days in the past, america was saying, we’re not a part of this. Now the president is saying actually, “We are in it.” Are we in it?

Lawler: Once more, I believe there has all the time been nice cooperation and coordination, communication. It’s important to keep in mind, there’s 40,000 American troops within the Center East. We’ve bases inside proximity to Iran. Clearly, we need to ensure that Iran doesn’t strike at our navy personnel. As well as, I believe it is typically forgotten there’s 700,000-plus People dwelling in Israel both half time or full time. In order that’s the scale nearly of a congressional district.

Inskeep: Whatever the involvement america might have had to date, there’s the dialogue of america particularly deploying a bunker-busting bomb, an enormous bomb that would doubtlessly, we’re informed, harm or destroy an Iranian nuclear facility at Fordo beneath a mountain. Ought to america do this?

Lawler: In my view, sure. I believe the fact of the state of affairs is {that a} nuclear Iran is harmful for peace and stability, not simply within the Center East, however all through the world. The connection they’ve had with China, with Russia, the coordinated effort to undermine and destabilise the free world. We’ve to take all of this under consideration. And Iran clearly is teetering on the brink. You may see it. You may see the potential for an rebellion inside, by the Iranian individuals, not by the U.S. or Israel, however by the Iranian individuals. And a nuclear Iran is the one factor standing in the way in which from that taking place. And so from my vantage level, once you take a look at the totality of the state of affairs, Israel has taken nice steps to weaken Iran’s air defenses over the previous 12 months. They’ve taken nice steps to eradicate the nuclear program. However all of us knew that they’d not totally have the ability to do it with out U.S. engagement and involvement. And if that’s what is required to complete the job, I totally help it.

Israeli air defense systems fire to intercept Iranian missiles over Tel Aviv before dawn Wednesday. Israel and Iran exchanged fire for a sixth day.

Inskeep: I simply need to underline a number of the dangers right here. We do not know the way a struggle would prove. That is one of many realities of struggle. The struggle in Iraq didn’t prove the way in which that lots of people anticipated when america went after weapons of mass destruction there. There’s additionally the query of political help at dwelling, and there is the matter of the legislation. Historically, if america was to assault one other nation, it could name for a declaration of struggle by Congress. The Structure actually requires that, though the expectation is blurred in latest many years. Do you consider that any motion is required by Congress earlier than the president would have permission to assault Iran?

Lawler: Lately, administrations, each Republican and Democrat, have taken focused strikes and executed so with out coming to Congress for approval. The fact of this case is much totally different than Iraq of twenty years in the past when it comes to how that is being carried out. Conflict has modified considerably. We see it every single day. We see it with what Ukraine simply did in Russia. We see it clearly how Israel has carried out this struggle.

Inskeep: So ought to Congress act then?

Lawler: Any additional steps that might require U.S. troops on the bottom. Definitely, that is one thing that must come to Congress. However so far as working with Israel to eradicate Iran’s nuclear program, I help that. And I help the president’s actions that he might take.

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