Senator Ted Cruz admitted that he urged Donald Trump to go ahead with military action against Iran just one day before the conflict began.Cruz said he told the president that the Iranian regime was at its weakest point and that its collapse would greatly enhance American security.
He also indicated that it prompted Trump to move away from diplomatic options in favor of decisive action.
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“Look, I urged the president to launch this attack. And as you noticed, I was with him almost all day on Friday before the attack started on Saturday. And so we were on Air Force One. We were flying to Texas to Corpus Christi for a big event, planning Corpus Christi. So I was on the plane with him, and then he asked me to jump in the beast — the presidential limousine — and it was just the two of us, one on one,” Cruz said during “Trigger Gauge.” Podcast.
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“Almost all the time he was asking me what I thought we should do about Iran,” he said, and said that no one should negotiate with Iran. “I don’t think they’re negotiating in good faith,” Cruz recalled. “They’re liars. And I think the Ayatollah just wants to delay, delay, delay while they rebuild.”The Israeli army carried out new night attacks on Iran, where authorities say more than 1,300 civilians have been killed since the start of the war.
The conflict has been exacerbated by a prolonged internet outage in Iran, now in its fourth week, according to monitoring group NetBlocks, which has warned that the shutdown is worsening conditions for millions of civilians cut off from independent information and emergency alerts.Israeli forces also continued their bombing in Lebanon, including raids on the capital, Beirut.Meanwhile, Admiral Brad Cooper of US Central Command said US forces struck more than 8,000 military targets during the conflict, including 130 Iranian ships. He described this as the largest destruction of the Navy during a three-week period since World War II, adding that Iran’s military capabilities were steadily weakening.
