{"id":67703,"date":"2026-03-01T12:57:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T17:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/trump-allies-defend-us-israel-strikes-on-iran-as-democrats-call-it-a-war-of-choice\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T12:57:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T17:57:45","slug":"trump-allies-defend-us-israel-strikes-on-iran-as-democrats-call-it-a-war-of-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/trump-allies-defend-us-israel-strikes-on-iran-as-democrats-call-it-a-war-of-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump allies defend US-Israel strikes on Iran as Democrats call it a \u2018war of choice\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senators Tom Cotton and Lindsey Graham defend attack, Democrats say administration must answer vital questions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/mar\/01\/us-israel-war-on-iran-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-i-dead-latest-reports\">US-Israel war on Iran \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump administration allies reinforced on Sunday the administration\u2019s messaging on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/us-israel-war-on-iran\">Israel-US strikes on Iran<\/a>, while Democratsdecried it as a \u201cwar of choice\u201d that required congressional approval.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday talk shows, Arkansas senator Tom Cotton, who serves on the Armed Services Committee, and South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham defended the strikes, while Virginia senator Mark Warner, vice-chairman of the Committee on Intelligence, and other Democrats welcomed the elimination of the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei but said the administration must now answer vital questions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/01\/iran-attacks-republican-democrat-reactions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators Tom Cotton and Lindsey Graham defend attack, Democrats say administration must answer vital questions US-Israel war on Iran \u2013 latest updates Donald Trump administration allies reinforced on Sunday the administration\u2019s messaging on the Israel-US strikes on Iran, while Democratsdecried it as a \u201cwar of choice\u201d that required congressional approval. On Sunday talk shows, Arkansas &#8230; <a title=\"Trump allies defend US-Israel strikes on Iran as Democrats call it a \u2018war of choice\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/trump-allies-defend-us-israel-strikes-on-iran-as-democrats-call-it-a-war-of-choice\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump allies defend US-Israel strikes on Iran as Democrats call it a \u2018war of choice\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}