Senate Majority Leader Thune warns Iran should return to the negotiating table

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First on the fox: The majority leader of the Senate John Thun, Ruby, does not imagine, and does not want, for the US military to participate directly in the conflict between Israel and Iran, but this depends on whether the Islamic Republic joins the negotiating table.
“The dismantling of the Iranian nuclear program is what is going on around him,” Thun told Fox News Digital from his office in Capitol. “This can happen one of two ways. It can happen diplomatically – voluntarily – Or it can happen by strength. “
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The majority leader of the Senate John Thun, Rurawi, the Center (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Thun’s comments come as questions and concerns about Capitol Hill between legislators about whether the United States will take over a larger and more direct role in the prosperous struggle in the Middle East. There are active talks between the members of the Senate about the role that congress must play in whether the United States will be pushed into an armed conflict or if this authority should be waived for the president.
“The Israelis may not have the military ability to do everything necessary.” “If the Iranians are smart, they will come to the table and negotiate this in a way that they choose to end or coordinate their nuclear program.”
Israel and Iran circulated missile strikes for the fifth day after the late state strike at night last Thursday, as the critical infrastructure that would help Iran seek to establish or destroy a nuclear weapon. It is worth noting that Israel was unable to damage the fuel enrichment factory in the fortified FordOW, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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The decisions of the two parties that require Congress to weigh and take a vote to go to war with Iran and coordinate a totally armed conflict this week, while some legislators believe that the United States should roam in Iranian nuclear capabilities and support Israel as fighting.
President Donald Trump has so far refused to say whether the United States would use direct military power to prevent or obtain a nuclear weapon from establishing Iran, and continued to urge Iranian leaders to negotiate a nuclear deal.
However, the president met in the White House parking hall on Tuesday with the National Security Team after leaving the 7 Group Summit in Canada early.
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“We now have full and comprehensive control over the sky on Iran.” In this same position, he pointed out that the United States was familiar with the place where the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khouna, was “hiding”, but he was not ready to hit, “at least not at the present time.”
But Thun was more cautious, and he claimed that “we will wait and see what they are doing.”
“I now think they are definitely in their wake,” he said. “Their leadership has been brought out and their control. No one knows who is really responsible.”
“We’ll see. If they are smart, they will come to the table.”
However, he was hoping to see that the Iranians started ascending against the Ayatollah and believed that this is when the “seeds of change” begin to appear. He also pointed out that there is “a lot of things here that suggests to me, this moment may be at the appropriate time that we have not seen since 1979,” referring to the Iranian revolution that witnessed the overthrow of ownership in Iran and the subsequent creation of the Islamic Republic.
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In response to a question about whether legislators will ask a supplementary spending package to help Israel, Thun said: “We will cross this bridge if we come to it.” But he imagined that if one of them is necessary, he will be dealt with after the budget settlement process, when legislators work to finance the government during the allocations of 2026.
He said: “I think, at the present time, that everyone wishes the success of the Israelis, and again, in the hope that the United States will not have to participate, but realize what is at stake, not only for Israel but for the region and the world.”
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2025-06-18 00:06:00