Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman said President Donald Trump should forget about engaging in talks with Iran and pursue military strikes against the country’s nuclear facilities instead.
In an interview Wednesday with the Washington Free Beacon, Fetterman made it clear he preferred the U.S. pursue force over diplomacy when it came to Iran.
“Waste that (expletive),” he said. “You’re never going to be able to negotiate with that kind of regime that has been destabilizing the region for decades already, and now we have an incredible window, I believe, to do that, to strike and destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities.”
The Trump administration is currently looking to hold a second round of talks in Rome with Iran about their nuclear program.
Fetterman not only said such talks would be unproductive, he dismissed foreign policy experts who had previously said that attacking Iran could lead to a regional war.
“And remember, all of these so-called experts were all wrong,” he said. “You know, they’ve been saying for years and years Hezbollah was the ultimate badass that kept Israel in check, and we can’t move on anything beyond that.”
Hezbollah, Fetterman said, “couldn’t fight” and called the Palestinian militant group Hamas a “bunch of tunnel rats with junkie rockets in the back of a Toyota truck.”
“Years ago, I completely understood why Trump withdrew from the Obama deal. Today, I can’t understand why Trump would negotiate with this diseased regime. The negotiations should be comprised of 30,000-pound bombs and the IDF,” he said.
Fetterman has been one of Israel’s strongest supporters recently, especially in regards to its war against Hamas.
