Over the weekend, the United States and Israel began jointly attacking Iran with a barrage of air strikes in an attempt to remove the Iranian regime. Since then, hundreds of Iranians have died as the acts of war have continued, and the country's 86-year-old supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is among them.
Republican Missouri Congressman Mark Alford told KCUR's Up To Date on Monday that he supports the president's decision to take this major step in Iran.
"Well, I think it was right to strike once again," Alford told Up To Date. "This was the time to take out the Ayatollah. Negotiations were not productive. The Iranians were not serious about reducing their enrichment and eliminating their capabilities and development of ballistic missiles, and so this was the right thing to do to try to restore democracy to Iran."
The White House made several claims prior to the beginning of the war in Iran to justify its actions, including that Iran would "soon" have the ability to send ballistic missiles to the continental United States, a claim which has no direct evidence. On Monday, President Trump said that the war could potentially go on for weeks.
- U.S. Rep. Mark Alford, Republican, Missouri’s 4th District
