AhlulBayt News Agency: Senior Senate Democrats have called on President Donald Trump to publicly justify any potential US military aggression against Iran, after emerging from a closed-door briefing on the administration’s war preparations.
“Closed-door briefings are fine, but the administration has to make its case to the American people on something as important as this,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said following the briefing on Tuesday.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the ranking member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, also said it was “incumbent” upon the president to make the case to the American people regarding what the administration wanted to achieve with any new military strikes on Iran.”
Warner also said Trump had to make it clear to the American public “how to protect American interests” in the event of any renewed aggression.
“Maybe we’ll hear that tonight, but if we don’t hear it tonight, we need to hear it very, very soon,” Warner said, referring to Trump’s State of the Union Address.
The comments came amid significant American military buildup in the West Asia region, including around Iran, featuring two aircraft carriers as well as numerous warplanes and missile systems.
The warlike concentration comes, although, Iranian and American negotiators have begun a fresh series of indirect nuclear negotiations, the third round of which is expected to undergo in Geneva in a matter of days.
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