The Senate is headed toward a vote Wednesday on President Donald Trump’s decision to embark on a war against Iran, an extraordinary test in Congress for a conflict that has rapidly spread across the Middle East with no clear U.S. exit strategy.
Gas prices both in South Carolina, and nationally have climbed once again, however according to GasBuddy, markets have still not yet shown how gas prices will react to the weekend’s U.S.–Iran attacks.
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, approving of Donald Trump and Israel’s continued strikes in Iran, offered a hint at where he wants the United States to focus its attention next.
South Carolina lawmakers are responding to the attack on Iran.
The war in the Middle East spiraled further Monday as Israel and the U.S. pounded Iran. Tehran and its allies hit back against Israel, neighboring Gulf states, and targets critical to the world’s production of oil and natural gas.
A U.S. intelligence report suggests that Iran’s nuclear program has been set back only a few months after U.S. strikes and was not “completely and fully obliterated” as President Donald Trump has said, according to two people familiar with the early assessment.
President Donald Trump insisted Wednesday that U.S. strikes delivered a crushing blow to Iran’s nuclear program despite a preliminary American intelligence assessment suggesting that the assault inflicted only a marginal setback.
President Donald Trump on Monday declared the “12 day war” between Israel and Iran as likely ending in a ceasefire, validating the strategic gamble of a devastating U.S. airstrike this weekend on three Iranian nuclear sites.
President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Iran had agreed to a “complete and total ceasefire” soon after Iran launched a limited missile attack Monday on a U.S. military base in Qatar, retaliating for the American bombing of its nuclear sites.
From gleeful celebrations, dutiful deference, and posts laden with American flag emojis to notable silence, continued doubt, and questions over lack of congressional approval, lawmakers from across the Palmetto State are offering their reactions to the US military’s bombing operation in the Middle East late Saturday night.
