US Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill right after a closed-door Senate Armed Services Committee briefing on the Iran conflict (around March 10–12, 2026). He warns that the Trump administration “seem[s] to be on a path toward deploying American troops on the ground in Iran to accomplish any of the potential objectives,” expressing dissatisfaction and anger that key questions (including war costs) went unanswered.
This exact quote and footage appear in multiple news clips (The Hill, Reuters, C-SPAN, YouTube shorts) and other X posts that directly identify him and match the video file. The original post’s caption about Trump sending ground troops to Iran aligns perfectly with Blumenthal’s comments. Other senators (e.g., Van Hollen or Warren) have spoken on related Iran topics recently, but none match this specific press scrum or phrasing.
Professor Jeffrey Sachs says decades of conflict across the Middle East can be traced back to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's 30-year strategy known as "A Clean Break."
Professor Jeffrey Sachs
Joe Kent, the Director of the National Counterterrorism Centre and a decorated Green Beret veteran who has long supported President Donald Trump, resigned Tuesday in protest of the U.S.-Israel military campaign against Iran, now in its third week.
In a lengthy resignation letter posted to X (formerly Twitter), Kent directly addressed Trump, writing:“Early in this administration, high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your America First platform and sowed pro-war sentiments to encourage a war with Iran. This echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States, and that should you strike now, there was a clear path to a swift victory. This was a lie and is the same tactic the Israelis used to draw us into the disastrous Iraq war that cost our nation the lives of thousands of our best men and women. We cannot make this mistake again.”
Kent added that he could not “in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” emphasizing that “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation” and that the conflict resulted from “pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.” He referenced his 11 combat deployments and the loss of his wife in a prior Middle East conflict as reasons he could not endorse sending more Americans to fight.
The unprovoked war of aggression, dubbed Operation Epic Fury by U.S. and Israeli officials, began on February 28, 2026, with coordinated airstrikes on the people of Iran in the cover of their usual lies, the nuclear facilities and missile sites. Probably the bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab in Iran killing 175 students and their teacher were nuclear facilities! Or killing ther Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and other senior officials in the initial barrage of bombing were the missile sites! Once a liar, always a liar.
The Trump administration and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have framed the their barbaric action action as necessary to neutralize Iran’s nuclear program, missile capabilities, and support for freedom movement against Zionists racism and settler colonialism. The irony both states keep the weapons of mass destruction, one is declared nuclear state and other is undeclared and the one has used weapons of mass destruction and other is the biggest violators International laws never allowed IAEA to report on its violations and threat to 400 million people of the region yet want to dictates other sovereign state to not have their defence. Iran as sovereign state has retaliated with missile strikes on Israel, and the U.S bases in GCC, Iraq, Syria, Jordon and the U.S military support network of energy infrastructure, including a major hit on the South Pars gas field (shared with Qatar) from where U.S CENTCOM operate in the region. Trump-Netanyah the war of aggression now creating impact on the global economy. The Strait of Hormuz — through which roughly 20% of global oil flows — has been heavily disrupted, sending oil prices surging and raising fears of a broader energy crisis.
U.S BASES AROUND IRAN
As the conflict enters its 19th-20th day, reports indicate hundreds to over 1,800 deaths in Iran (including civilians in strikes on urban areas and a school), missile impacts causing casualties and damage in Israel and Arab nations, and at least a dozen U.S. service members killed. Iranian forces have targeted shipping and energy assets, while the U.S. has conducted additional strikes to reopen the vital water-way.
Iran’s Missile Blitz Hits Prince
Sultan Base — U.S. Air Power Crippled
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo highlighted the domestic fallout in a post on X: “America is on high alert for terrorist attacks — whether from Iranian sleeper cells or ISIS-inspired strikes — yet Democrats continue to play politics over DHS funding.” The security of the American people should never be treated as a bargaining chip, he added.
In a sharp reply to Pompeo, Sarah Adams (a former CIA officer) countered: “Why is America on high alert from terrorist attacks Mike?! What was the huge catalyst….ohhh maybe the Doha Deal with the Taliban and Al-Qaeda which pumped billions of US taxpayer dollars into a handful of terrorist groups. Who made that deal?” She attached an image purporting to show Pompeo with a figure linked to the bin Laden family through marriage ties, tying it to past Trump-era negotiations.
Analysis: Trajectory of the Conflict, Regional Toll, and Accountability
The war — described by supporters as a necessary pre-emptive strike against a nuclear-armed sponsor of terrorism and by critics like Kent as an avoidable “war of choice” driven by foreign lobbying — is already exacting a heavy human and economic price across the Middle East. The region’s roughly 400 million people (not the exaggerated “4 billion” sometimes cited) face immediate threats from missile exchanges, infrastructure destruction, refugee flows, and economic shockwaves. Iran is suffering widespread devastation to civilian areas and energy facilities; Israel has absorbed direct hits; Gulf Arab states report injuries and disrupted trade. Global ripple effects include spiking fuel costs that could fuel inflation and instability far beyond the region.
Where is President Trump leading the United States? As the track record of the U.S administration lies and Trump administration is the worse in the U.S history which openly misleading as it appear from their official statements suggest a push for rapid degradation of Iran’s nuclear and missile threats followed by withdrawal, with Trump recently floating ideas like letting regional partners secure the Strait of Hormuz or even considering limited ground operations to seize nuclear material. However, experts warn the conflict has morphed from a targeted campaign into a messier “war of necessity” due to Iran’s resilient retaliation and the Hormuz blockade. Allies have largely declined deeper involvement, prompting Trump to question NATO commitments. In my opinion the U.S - Israel Zionists colonialism is going no where. The fact is that force allies have 0 trust on the U.S and every member state in the region is clear that the U.S is sitting 6000 miles away in safe zone need the flams of wars at our door steps to sustained its war economy yet we in the region pay in our blood, deaths, destruction and poverty. People now question on the street who gave authority to the U.S to change the governments of the sovereign states? The UN had mandated the U.S to go to Afghanistan but after 20 years it brought back the same terrorists Taliban in power and paying them 40-80 million U.S dollars every week in cash. Is it to do the dirty job of the U.S secret wars? The fact on ground is that 4000 million people of the region are now uniting to deport the U.S. from the region for a long lasting peace in the region. The Presence of the U.S in the opinion of the streets in the region is a threat the lives and property of every human being. Just go and talk to anyone, everyone would suggest the problem the the U.S and Israel not Iran. The very Iraq-style quagmire Kent warned against — with rising American casualties, trillions in potential costs, and domestic political fracture.
Deaths and destruction are already visible: Iranian civilians and infrastructure bear the brunt of U.S.-Israeli strikes, while retaliatory fire has hit Israeli and Arab targets. Further escalation risks thousands more lives, humanitarian crises, and empowered extremism.
Who will be held accountable? In the U.S. system, primary responsibility rests with the executive branch — President Trump for authorizing the strikes and Netanyahu for Israeli coordination — subject to political judgment via Congress (which has seen failed war-powers challenges) and voters in future elections. Critics point to alleged foreign influence and intelligence lapses; defenders cite Iran’s long record of nuclear defiance, supports of liberation movements, and “Death to America” threats as justification. The are suggesting that Iranian leadership bears accountability for decades of "terrorism" sponsorship and nuclear escalation that provoked the response yet ignoring the facts.
Irani leadership is the worse victim of terrorism going back to 80s:
- On June 27, 1981 Ali Khamenei himself was targeted by terrorists. A bomb hidden inside a tape recorder exploded while Khamenei was giving a speech at the Abuzar Mosque in Tehran.
- On June 28, 1981, terror bombing of the Islamic Republican Party (IRP) headquarters in Tehran killed 27 lawmakers (members of parliament), along with at least four cabinet ministers and 74 total officials. The meeting was chaired by Ayatollah Beheshti, Chief Justice of the time who was also killed.
Those who keep reciting Iran terrorism must also look upon the record of Israeli terrorism:
- Israel has the worst record of promoting terrorism and sponsoring terror outfits, including ISIS. The very birth of the Israeli state emerged from a web of terrorism. Just read *By Way of Deception: The Making and Unmaking of a Mossad Officer*, a nonfiction book by former Mossad katsa Victor Ostrovsky.
- The British administrative headquarters for Mandatory Palestine, located in the southern wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, were bombed in a terrorist attack on 22 July 1946 by the militant right-wing Zionist underground organization Irgun during the Jewish insurgency.
Internationally, there is no formal mechanism beyond UN debate and historical verdict. There is no accountability for the U.S and Israel only for German, to track the Nazis and punish them or African, Asian and some parts of the Europe. The Iranian are resisting against imperialism on behalf of the world. The world don't want to go back into a colonial age where U.S and Israel are trying to take to subjugate and to loot the resources of the world as we had seen the helpless people of Venezuela and Cuba.
This remains a fluid, high-stakes situation with no clear end in sight. Both sides of the debate agree on one point: the human cost to the Middle East — and potentially to America — is mounting rapidly.
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