Democrats say they were left in dark about plans for US strikes on Iran | US politics

Senior Democrats claimed that they left in the dark around the midnight Hummer, the United States A very coordinated strike Saturday on the Iranian nuclear enrichment program.

La Mark Warner, US Senate Member in Virginia, and Jim Hems, Connecticut’s representative, both on his head Democrats In the Senate and Intelligence Packets, it was briefed before the attack, according to reports.

However, this came amid allegations that their Republican counterparts had been previously notified of the operation, which included 125 aircraft-including seven B-2 bombers carrying 14 warehouses weighing three tons-and 75 Tomahawk missiles launched from American submarines. Intuition I mentioned The leader of the Senate minority, Chak Shomer, was informed shortly before the attacks began at 6.40 pm East time.

HIMES employees received a notification from the strike from the Pentagon until after Donald Trump The announcement was issued on social media shortly before 8 pm, according to the port.

The Minister of Defense, Beit Higseth, told an early press conference on Sunday that the strikes “lasted months and weeks of sites and preparation so that we could be prepared when the president called.”

“It took wrong guidance and the highest operational security,” Higseth said. Publishing From B-2 bombers to the Pacific Ocean Island earlier on Saturday.

US attack Iran Most Democrats who left Washington to spend the Junitor – but the clear lack of warning of legislators in intelligence committees is remarkable. Senior legislators are usually informed of military operations.

“The cost, time, risks to our forces and strategy – the basics before we made a decision on this result, said last week.

Senate members are expected to obtain a briefing next week. However, the signs that the attack was imminent to see: the additional American military assets were transferred to the region, and the director of national intelligence, Toulcy Gabbard, stopped a briefing with the Senate Intelligence Committee last week.

Moderate and progressive Democrats were inconsistent with the participation of US forces to support Israel. Trump’s use of force can now deepen the ideological division.

“The destruction of these facilities is positive, meaning that it will restore the Iran program.” But he warned that Iran can now “the bomb race.”

He added that the strikes were “not constitutional” and Congress must be brought “based on a great work that could lead to the outbreak of a great war. But Chef refused to be attracted to whether the world was safer after the strike. He said: “We simply do not know.”

Chef confirmed that in the absence of a briefing, “This is something that should not be presented.”

The prominent Democrats who had a significantly silent presidential ambitions were significantly about the 10 -day war between Israel and Iran. “They surround a kind of bets,” said Joel Robin, former Deputy Foreign Minister, during the Obama administration.

“The monsters of the Democratic Party circles at the present time are hostile to the Israeli war in Gaza to the point that it is really difficult to go out as if one is an unauthorized war that supports Israel without a reaction.”

But some spoke. Rowa Jana, a member of the California Congress, described the White House threats to an attack on Iran “a decisive moment for our party.” This came that they have never been progressive and isolation legislators on the right.

Khana made legislation with a member of the Republican US House of Representatives in Kentucky, Thomas Massi, who called on Trump to “end” the use of the American armed forces against Iran unless he “explicitly declares” the declaration of war from Congress.

After the strike, Khanna posted on X: “Trump hitting Iran Without any permission from Congress. We need to return immediately to the capital and vote on it [Massie] And my war decision to prevent America from clouds to another endless war from the Middle East. “

Diamond He said in response to this To strikes: “This is not constitutional.”

Independent American Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is gathering with the Democrats, said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin’s support “Netanyahu’s war against Iran will be a catastrophic mistake.” He made legislation prohibiting the use of federal funds for force against Iran.

Congress in New York Alexandria Okasio Cortez Ali X said that the decision to attack Iranian nuclear sites was “catastrophic”.

“The catastrophic president’s decision to bomb Iran without permission is a major violation of the constitution and war authorities in Congress,” Okasio Cortez wrote.

In NBC Meet the Press JD Vance, US Vice President stressed that it is not correct to say that Saturday’s strikes in Iran exceeded Trump’s presidential authority.

Meanwhile, Chef refused to support the calls for the dismissal procedures against Trump, saying that the failure to inform the Democrats before the strike was “another party exercise.”