The head of majority in the Thune Senate warns that Iran should return to the negotiation table
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First on Fox: The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, Rs.d., does not imagine, nor does not want the American army that is directly involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran, but which depends on the question of whether the Islamic Republic joins the negotiation table.
“The dismantling of Iran’s nuclear program is what it is about,” Thune told Fox News Digital from his office in the Capitol. “And this can happen in two ways. This can occur diplomatically – voluntarily – Or can occur via force. “”
Majority leader in the Senate John Thune, RS.D., center (APO photo / J. Scott Applewhite)
Thune’s comments come when questions and concerns swirl on Capitol Hill among the legislators as to whether the United States will play a more important and more direct role in the booming conflict in the Middle East. There are active conversations between senators on the role that Congress should play in the opportunity to push the United States into an armed conflict or if this power must be sold to the president.
“The Israelis may not have the military capacity to do everything necessary,” he continued. “If the Iranians are intelligent, they will come to the table and negotiate this in a way that they choose to end or disavow their nuclear program.”
Israel and Iran exchanged missile strikes for a fifth day following the strike of the Jewish state night last Thursday, where the critical infrastructure which would help Iran to continue the creation of a nuclear weapon have been damaged or destroyed. In particular, Israel has not been able to harm the strongly fortified enrichment factory Fordow Fuel, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
President Donald Trump speaks with journalists from the Air Force One en route de Calgary, Canada, at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Monday evening. (AP photo / Mark Schiefelbein)
Bipartisan resolutions demanding that Congress can weigh and vote to go to war with Iran and disavow an entirely armed conflict circulated this week, while some legislators think that the United States should go to the nuclear capacity of Iran and support Israel while the fight against rages.
President Donald Trump has so far refused to say if the United States would use direct military force to prevent Iran from creating or obtaining a nuclear weapon, and he continued to exhort Iranian leaders to negotiate a nuclear agreement.
However, the president met on Tuesday in the White House situation room with his national security team after leaving the G7 summit in Canada early.
Democratic legislators criticize Israel’s defensive strikes against Iranian nuclear sites
Israeli security forces inspect a site struck by a missile launched from Iran in central Israel on Tuesday. (Photo / baz ratner)
Before this meeting, he declared on his social media platform, Truth Social, “we now have a complete and total control of the sky on Iran.” In the same position, he noted that the United States knew where the supreme chief of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was hiding, but was not ready to strike, “at least not for the moment”.
But Thune was more prudent and argued that “we will wait and see what they are doing”.
“I think at the moment, they are definitely on their heels,” he said. “Their command and control have been removed. No one knows who is really in charge.”
“We will see. If they are intelligent, they will come to the table.”
However, he hoped to see the Iranians starting to get up against Ayatollah and thought it was at this time that the “seeds of change” would begin to appear. He also noted that there are “many things here that suggests to me, it is perhaps this moment that we have not seen since 1979”, a reference to the Iranian revolution which saw the reversal of the monarchy in Iran and the subsequent creation of the Islamic Republic.
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When asked if the legislators offered a set of additional expenses to help Israel, Thune said: “We will cross this bridge if and when we get there.” But he planned that if we were necessary, it would be processed after the budgetary reconciliation process, when legislators endeavor to finance the government during the credits for the 2026.
“I think that, for the moment, everyone wants the success of the Israelis and, once again, hoping that the United States should not be more involved, but realizing what is at stake, and not only for Israel but for the region and the world,” he said.
