‘Target Tehran’: US senators call for war with Iran

Several US senators, who say they don’t want war, have called for direct strikes on Iran. This follows an attack by an Iran-backed group in Iraq killing three US soldiers on the Syria-Jordan border.

“Target Tehran,” wrote John Cornyn of Texas on X. He later clarified he meant attacks on the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and this would be “about deterrence, not war”.

While South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham wrote, “Hit Iran now. Hit them hard.”

In addition, former Nato commander and 2004 Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark called for Biden to “take out their capabilities and strike hard at the source: Iran”.