Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said Sunday that the United States has “no beef with the Iranian people” following Saturday’s announcement by President Trump that the U.S. had bombed three Iranian nuclear sites.
“We have no beef with the Iranian people,” Johnson told anchor Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business Network’s “Sunday Morning Futures.” “This is about a regime that wants to destroy and eliminate Israel and destroy the great Satan, America.”
Trump announced late Saturday that U.S. bombers struck three nuclear sites in Iran: Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan.
“Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace,” he said in an address to the nation.
The U.S. bombing in Iran followed a week of debate about whether the U.S. should step into a conflict that Israel had kicked off on June 13.
“We’re not at war with the Iranian people. We support the Iranian people,” Johnson said Sunday. “They don’t like being under the dictatorial thumb of such a brutal regime.”
On Sunday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the U.S. had no military operation planned against Iran, but he did not rule out future strikes if the country did not show a meaningful effort to make peace.
“We have other targets that we could hit, but we achieved our objective,” Rubio said on CBS News’s “Face the Nation.”