{"id":29376,"date":"2026-02-28T17:35:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T22:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=29376"},"modified":"2026-02-28T17:35:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T22:35:44","slug":"sen-ossoff-statement-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-statement-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff Statement on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Atlanta, Ga.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff today released the following statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEight months ago, Donald Trump lied to the country when he claimed U.S. air strikes had \u2018obliterated\u2019 Iran\u2019s nuclear program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNow Trump says he\u2019s taken America to war for regime change in Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTrump has launched this regime change war and put American forces at risk without presenting evidence of an imminent threat, without clear objectives, without having exhausted diplomacy, without a plan for the aftermath, and without the consent of Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI oppose yet another regime change war-of-choice in the Middle East. Congress must convene immediately and pass a War Powers Resolution to assert our Constitutional authority over war and peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe President has presented no evidence that Iran or its nuclear program \u2014 which he falsely claimed to have \u2018obliterated\u2019 \u2014 pose an imminent threat to the United States, or that diplomacy was exhausted. Iran\u2019s support for terrorism and uranium enrichment have long destabilized the region. But sending American forces into harm\u2019s way should only ever be a last resort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI pray for the safety of U.S. forces who have been ordered into battle and commend their extraordinary professionalism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, Ga.&nbsp;\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff today released the following statement. \u201cEight months ago, Donald Trump lied to the country when he claimed U.S. air strikes had \u2018obliterated\u2019 Iran\u2019s nuclear program. \u201cNow Trump says he\u2019s taken America to war for regime change in Iran. \u201cTrump has launched this regime change war and put American forces [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29376","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/29376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/29376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29377,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/29376\/revisions\/29377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}