No imminent threat, just Israeli agenda: US senators push back on war on Iran

Two US senators have rebuked US President Donald Trump's decision to launch an aggression against Iran, saying there has been "no imminent threat" from Tehran and that the war is the agenda of the Israeli regime.

The foreign and military policy of the United States must be determined by American people and not Israel’s right-wing extremist cabinet led by Benjamin Netanyahu, senior American senator Bernie Sanders says, four days after a US-Israeli coalition began the unprovoked military aggression against Iran.

Sanders sounded the warning in a post on X on Tuesday, saying that Netanyahu had so far obtained billions of dollars to flatten the besieged Gaza Strip during his genocidal war against the Palestinian territory which was launched in October 2023.

Now that the Israeli prime minister wants a war against Iran, Sanders added, noting that US President Donald Trump fulfilled Netanyahu’s wish.

“American foreign and military policy must be determined by the American people. Not the right-wing extremist Netanyahu” cabinet, Sanders stressed.

Earlier on Tuesday, Marco Rubio, in a closed-door briefing, tried to convince Congress and justify the US aggression on Iran – the so-called “Operation Epic Fury” – as Congress demands answers, but of no avail.

In recent days, administration officials have used Iran’s peaceful nuclear technology, ballistic missile production, and the false reports that it could soon acquire long-range strike capacity to justify the aggression. However, none of the claimed threats has so far proved to be a direct threat to the US.

After the briefing session, Richard Blumenthal, a senior Democrat senator, stressed that there is still no evidence of an imminent threat that would justify an attack on the Islamic Republic.

“I will give you my impression, which is that there is still no evidence, none, of an imminent threat that would justify an attack on Iran. No imminent threat to the United States has been set forth to me, but more importantly, to the American people,” he emphasized.

In retaliation for the unprovoked war of aggression, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) and Army have launched massive missile strikes against US military assets in regional countries and on targets in the Israeli-occupied territories since the weekend.

Iran’s escalating strikes have prompted Washington to close its embassies and urge Americans to flee the region.

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