President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the Iran war would restart if Tehran or its proxies killed more American troops.
Trump was asked about the tenuous ceasefire between the United States and Iran during an Oval Office event promoting “clean, beautiful coal” as an energy source. Specifically, Trump was asked if Iranian attacks on U.S. troops would be a “red line.”
“It would be a good reason [to resume strikes on Iran], I’d be honest with you,” Trump said. “If they killed U.S. troops, I think, I would do that very quickly.”
Since the start of the conflict, 13 American service members have been killed. Most of those were in the early days of the war as Iran launched retaliatory strikes against U.S. military bases in the Middle East. Trump’s comments came one day after four House Republicans voted with nearly every single Democrat to force the White House to end hostilities with Iran. The Senate passed a similar measure a few weeks back.
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