{"id":72621,"date":"2026-03-28T13:17:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T13:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/at-cpac-many-republicans-stand-by-trump-on-iran-but-theyre-divided-on-how-the-war-could-end\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T13:17:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T13:17:56","slug":"at-cpac-many-republicans-stand-by-trump-on-iran-but-theyre-divided-on-how-the-war-could-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/at-cpac-many-republicans-stand-by-trump-on-iran-but-theyre-divided-on-how-the-war-could-end\/","title":{"rendered":"At CPAC, many Republicans stand by Trump on Iran. But they&#8217;re divided on how the war could end."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>As Republicans grapple with a war in Iran during a tight midterm cycle, speakers and attendees at this year&#8217;s Conservative Political Action Conference are toeing a fine line between backing the Trump administration&#8217;s war effort and hinting at worries about the conflict expanding.<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, most members of President Trump&#8217;s party firmly support the war. Some 84% of Republicans approved of the U.S. taking military action against Iran in a <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/opinion-poll-iran-war-regime-2028-03-22\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">CBS News poll released last weekend<\/a><\/span>. Support falls somewhat, to 70%, among non-MAGA Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>But some Trump supporters have expressed hesitation about a conflict with Iran or concerns about its scope \u2014 and many are broadly wary of the U.S. intervening abroad.<\/p>\n<p>The debate is playing out during an election year, as Americans&#8217; views on the war \u2014 and on its impacts on energy prices \u2014 could influence who wins control of Congress. The most recent CBS News poll <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/opinion-poll-iran-war-regime-2028-03-22\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">found<\/a><\/span> that 69% of independents are opposed to U.S. military action in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Deborah Thorne, a longtime Trump ally, said she supports his administration&#8217;s efforts in Iran, but suggested that she isn&#8217;t looking for a long-term war.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think Trump&#8217;s right,&#8221; Thorne told CBS News. &#8220;I think the Iranian people need to be in charge of their country. I don&#8217;t think Americans need to go in there and do what they&#8217;ve done in other wars, but I do believe Trump is right as far as we have to finish what we&#8217;ve started with them.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some attendees of CPAC, the annual conservative gathering that&#8217;s being held this year in the Dallas area, were emphatic that they don&#8217;t want to see ground forces. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that ground troops won&#8217;t be necessary to achieve the U.S.&#8217;s goals in Iran, but Mr. Trump hasn&#8217;t ruled out the idea, and Pentagon officials have made detailed preparations for potentially deploying such forces, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-administration-iran-ground-troop-preparations\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">CBS News<\/a><\/span> has previously reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want our boys and girls going to fight in Iran,&#8221; Janie Dean, a traveling nurse from central Texas, told CBS News. &#8220;It&#8217;s going to be another Vietnam. We need to stomp them out once and for all so that that&#8217;s not an issue with them. And then we need to get out.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dean said that despite her concerns, she continues to support President Trump and trusts his &#8220;judgment and discernment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While former Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida similarly backed the president, he urged Mr. Trump to use &#8220;every diplomatic tool at his disposal&#8221; with Iran and voiced his concerns about the prospect of a U.S. ground operation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A ground invasion of Iran will make our country poorer and less safe,&#8221; Gaetz said bluntly during his remarks on Thursday. &#8220;It will mean higher gas prices, higher food prices, and I&#8217;m not sure we would end up killing more terrorists than we would create.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, a significant number of Iranian Americans attended CPAC this year to hear from former <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/iran-reza-palhavi-democracy-hopes-60-minutes\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi<\/a><\/span> \u2014 whose father led Iran for decades before the 1979 Islamic Revolution \u2014 and to advocate for the continued military operation in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a very, very brutal theocratic dictatorship which has been ruling Iran with iron fists for the past 47 years,&#8221; Shahin Nezhad, a petroleum engineer from Houston who left Iran in 1997, told CBS News. &#8220;It&#8217;s very obvious you cannot just get rid of these people just by civil disobedience. As a nation, what you need is big support from outside.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nezhad was one of many attendees who immigrated to the United States from Iran following the 1979 revolution, when the country&#8217;s current clerical regime rose to power. Many of them praised Mr. Trump for taking action in the country and expressed their hopes that U.S. military action can topple the regime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hours after launching strikes last month, Mr. Trump <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-full-statement-on-us-iran-attack-major-combat-operations\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">encouraged the Iranian people<\/a><\/span> to rise up against the country&#8217;s government. But at other points, he has suggested his goals are more modest, describing it as a &#8220;short-term excursion&#8221; to degrade Iran&#8217;s military.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump has said at times that he wants a say in who runs Iran, but he also <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-iran-news-conference-miami-watch-live-stream-today-2026-03-09\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">likes the idea of a moderate insider<\/a><\/span> running the country. As for Pahlavi, who hasn&#8217;t lived in Iran since before his father&#8217;s monarchic government fell, Mr. Trump has said that &#8220;some people like him&#8221; but &#8220;it would seem to me that somebody from within maybe would be more appropriate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope Trump will be really serious about getting rid of the regime in Iran and we have a new start with the leadership of Crown Prince Pahlavi,&#8221; Nassar Meyman of Dallas told CBS News. &#8220;Sometimes, when Mr. Trump talks about, &#8216;I&#8217;m going to negotiate and find somebody inside the regime, somebody inside Iran&#8217;, that makes us rather worried.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>On the subject of a U.S. ground operation in Iran, many Iranian-Americans who attended CPAC said they believed sending troops to Iran would be necessary in order to topple the regime or destroy Iran&#8217;s missile stockpiles. Nezhad noted that, even if the U.S. degrades Iran&#8217;s military capabilities, its repressive internal security forces could still cling to power.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, I think boots on the ground, on a limited basis and for a particular purpose, is probably inevitable. It has to be done,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Still, even as support for Mr. Trump remains strong within the GOP coalition, a handful of high-profile conservatives have raised questions about the war with Iran.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/nancy-mace-concerns-iran-war-havent-seen-exit-strategy\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">said this week<\/a> she hasn&#8217;t &#8220;seen an exit strategy yet&#8221; and has &#8220;grave concerns&#8221; about it turning into &#8220;another 20-year-plus endless war.&#8221; And National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/joe-kent-trump-counterterrorism-iran-fbi-investigation-leak\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">resigned earlier this month<\/a><\/span> over the war, saying Iran &#8220;posed no imminent threat.&#8221; The White House has vehemently pushed back on Kent&#8217;s claims.<\/p>\n<p>More broadly, skepticism of foreign interventions has long been core to Mr. Trump&#8217;s political identity. During his ascent to power in 2016, Mr. Trump frequently broke with more hawkish members of his party on the merits of the Iraq war.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Bannon, who led Mr. Trump&#8217;s 2016 presidential campaign and served as a White House strategist in the first Trump term, briefly touched on the dynamics playing out with the conflict in Iran during his remarks at CPAC on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bannon has long been a proponent of an &#8220;America First&#8221; ideology rooted in economic nationalism and a strong opposition to foreign policy interventionism that critics often view as isolationism. He first expressed wariness about whether U.S. operations in Iran could lead to wider war <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/06\/23\/bannon-regime-change-us-military-iran-00418642\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">before last year&#8217;s strikes<\/a> on Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In his speech, Bannon said that how to navigate the conflict with Iran is ultimately Mr. Trump&#8217;s decision, and he didn&#8217;t take a specific position on how the war should proceed. 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