Could the US deploy troops to Iran, and how could that play out?
Al Jazeera
Experts say Iran’s vast, mountainous terrain would make an invasion difficult but a small, precise mission is possible.
Speculation has been mounting in the United States about whether American soldiers will be deployed on the ground in Iran as the US-Israeli war entered its 12th day on Wednesday.
Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal said he was the angriest he had been in his political career after he attended a classified Iran war briefing for the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday.
“I emerge from this briefing as dissatisfied and angry, frankly, as I have from any past briefing in my 15 years,” Blumenthal told reporters, adding that he had more questions than answers concerning the US goals.
“I am most concerned about the threat to American lives of potentially deploying our sons and daughters on the ground in Iraq. We seem to be on a path toward deploying American troops on the ground in Iran to accomplish any of the potential objectives here.”
It was the latest condemnation of the war on Iran by Democrats, who have faced Republican opposition in their attempts to rein in US President Donald Trump’s powers to go to war without the approval of Congress.
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