Iran: U.S. Senators Urge Caution Amid Rising Tensions

Some U.S. lawmakers have urged caution over the possibility of military action against Iran as the country faces growing internal turmoil. 

Their remarks were made during interviews on major television networks’ Sunday morning programs.

“I don’t know that bombing Iran will have the effect that is intended,” Republican Senator Rand Paul said on ABC News’ “This Week” show.

Rather than undermining the regime, a military attack on Iran could rally the people against an outside enemy, Paul and Democratic Senator Mark Warner said.

Warner, appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” warned that a military strike against Iran could risk uniting Iranians against the United States “in a way that the regime has not been able to.” History shows the dangers of U.S. intervention, said Warner, who argued that the U.S.-backed 1953 overthrow of Iran’s government set in motion a chain of events that gradually led to the rise of the country’s Islamic regime in the late 1970s.

Reuters