The Iranian attacks of Israel divide Democrats and the Republicans on politics

President Donald Trump urges Iran to return to talks with the United States on the Islamic State nuclear program “before it is too late”.

The president, commenting on the fourth day of missile strikes and air attacks between Iran and Israel who were launched by the initial attack of Israel who killed the best members of the Iranian army.

“They should speak and they should speak immediately,” Trump told journalists on Monday in Canada, where he attended an annual meeting of the best Western leaders.

The daily bombings between the two countries, which led to an increase in tolls in each nation, dominated the world’s major titles and aroused the concerns of an even wider war in the Middle East.

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A massive plume of smoke and fire has gone from an oil refinery in the south of Tehran following the information that an Israeli strike overnight targeted the site on June 15, 2025. (Atta Kenare / AFP)

And in the United States, attacks have exacerbated the already existing divisions in democratic and republican parties.

The Democrats, who fought with internal divisions for a few years during the War of Israel with Hamas in Gaza, spoke with two voices in the hours which followed Israel’s initial attack on Iran and Israeli chief Benjamin Netanyahu aggressive military strategy.

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The head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, the best democrat in the Senate, said shortly after the first attacks that “I said that ISRAEL had the right to defend itself and that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon”.

And Senator Jackie Rosen from Nevada, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said “Israel had acted in self-defense against an attack by Iran, and that the United States had to continue to stand with Israel, as it has done for decades, at that dangerous moment”.

The smoke and the flames rise from a building to the building following an Iranian missile attack in Tel Aviv on June 13, 2025. (Ilia Yefimovich / Picture Alliance via Getty Images)

But Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the best democrat of the powerful panel, warned that “the alarming decision of Israel to launch air strikes on Iran is an imprudent escalation which risks triggering regional violence”.

And the Pramila Jayapal representative of the state of Washington, former head of the Progressive Caucus of the Congress, said that “Netanyahu should not be authorized to attract America to another war forever. Instead, we must immediately push to a negotiated de -escalation”.

But it is not only the democrats divided on the effusion of blood in the Middle East.

Trump, a few hours before the first Israeli attacks, said: “I don’t want them to enter, because I think it would explode it”, as he referred to American negotiations with Tehran on the Iranian nuclear program.

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And the Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio, in his initial declaration, clearly said that the United States had not helped Israel and omitted any mention of support for the attack on Israel.

But while Trump continued to put pressure for negotiations – saying on Sunday on social networks that “Iran and Israel should conclude an agreement” – it has also clearly made American support for Israel and has increasingly warned Tehran that “if we are attacked in any way, the form or form by Iran, the full strength and the power of the United States will never make you before.”

President Donald Trump speaks at a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on the sidelines of the G7 summit on Monday, June 16, 2025, in Kananaskis, Canada. (AP photo / Mark Schiefelbein)

The two main republicans of the congress quickly supported Israel.

“For too long, Mullahs in Iran have publicly aspired to wipe the only democracy in the Middle East of the face of the map by all possible means,” said the head of the majority of the Senate John Thune.

Chamber Mike Johnson, R -La, underlined on social networks immediately after the initial attack according to which “Israel is right – and has the right – to defend itself!”

And one of the most vocal Gop Hawks – Senator Lindsey Graham from Southern Caroline – wrote “Game on” and congratulated Israel.

“Hat in Israel for one of the most impressive military strikes and secret operations in Israeli history.”

But the military Hawks have lost a large part of their influence in the GOP, thanks to the rise of the first America First movement in the last decade, which pressure for an extremely limited American military involvement.

“Anyone who slips so that the United States is fully involved in the War of Israel / Iran is not America first / Maga. Sabling for the murder of innocent people is disgusting. We are sick and tired of foreign wars. All,” said the republican representative of Marjorie Taylor Greene on Sunday.

And the conservative political commentator, Tucker Carlson, targeted what he called the “heat” when he urged the United States to avoid any military involvement in the War of Israel-Iran.

Matthew Bartlett, a republican strategist who served in the State Department during Trump’s first term, noted that “Donald Trump had changed the management of the Republican Party” with regard to American military commitments around the world.

“It gave him a new coalition and a new political power. This new war in the Middle East certainly threatens this coalition. Although we are not yet involved in a war, the chances of climbing are considerably increased and that certainly has ramifications with the Maga Coalition,” warned Bartlett.

On Sunday, the fears of some in the world of Maga were comments from Trump to ABC News that “we may be able to imply”.

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Wayne Lesperance, a veteran political scientist and president of the New England College, stressed that “the gap in the GOP can be attributed to Trump’s promises to remove America from its tangles in the world”.

But Lesperance noted that “the GOP has a long history of support for Israel and animosity towards Iran. Thus, approaching the current conflict between Israel and Iran represents a major decision point for the party’s future prospects on foreign policy”.