{"id":67728,"date":"2026-03-02T06:58:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/democrats-thrown-into-disarray-as-us-offensive-on-iran-creates-cracks\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T06:58:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:58:27","slug":"democrats-thrown-into-disarray-as-us-offensive-on-iran-creates-cracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/democrats-thrown-into-disarray-as-us-offensive-on-iran-creates-cracks\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats thrown into disarray as US offensive on Iran creates cracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers from Sanders to Mark Kelly offer mixed feelings on Trump\u2019s action and killing of Iranian supreme leader<\/p>\n<p>As Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/01\/iran-attacks-republican-democrat-reactions\">celebrated<\/a> the death of Iran\u2019s supreme leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/01\/ayatollah-ali-khameini-obituary\">Ayatollah Ali Khamenei<\/a>, with praise for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s decisive action, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/democrats\">Democrats<\/a> faced their own divisions and a reckoning over how to present a united front.<\/p>\n<p>Most were quick to condemn the US president for sidelining Congress to launch an illegal and unconstitutional war and demanded a swift vote on a war powers resolution that would restrain his military onslaught.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/02\/democrats-divided-iran-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers from Sanders to Mark Kelly offer mixed feelings on Trump\u2019s action and killing of Iranian supreme leader As Republicans celebrated the death of Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with praise for Donald Trump\u2019s decisive action, Democrats faced their own divisions and a reckoning over how to present a united front. Most were quick &#8230; <a title=\"Democrats thrown into disarray as US offensive on Iran creates cracks\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/democrats-thrown-into-disarray-as-us-offensive-on-iran-creates-cracks\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Democrats thrown into disarray as US offensive on Iran creates cracks\">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-67728","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\/67728","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=67728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}