Some lawmakers are calling for President Donald Trump to help Israel strike Iran’s nuclear facilities even as foreign policy experts warn about the potential consequences of such an action.
“Ultimately, short of regime change or occupation, it’s pretty difficult to see how military strikes could destroy Iran’s path to a nuclear weapon,” Justin Bronk, a senior research fellow at the British defense think tank Royal United Services Institute, told The Times of Israel.
Meanwhile, some lawmakers are proposing that now is the perfect time to strike the Iranian regime.
“You’re never going to be able to negotiate with that kind of regime that has been destabilizing the region for decades already, and now we have an incredible window, I believe, to do that, to strike and destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities,” Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., told the Washington…
