One of President Donald Trump’s top loyalists in Congress has seen the carnage wrought by what she called the “bloodthirsty Ayatollah” firsthand.
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) is a a senior member of both the House Armed Services Committee and the House Select Committee on Intelligence, but she also represents thousands of members of the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division, which is based out of New York’s Fort Drum.
In that latter capacity, she knows firsthand that “Iran is the world’s largest sponsor of terror and has targeted, killed, and wounded U.S. service members and civilians throughout the Middle East over the past decades, including soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division,” she said following Trump’s historic Operation Epic Fury.
For years, Stefanik said, she has “always been consistent that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons capabilities that would threaten the national security of the United States.” Trump’s latest strikes on Iran, which were carried out in close coordination with Israel, killed Iran’s ayatollah and most of his senior leadership.
“The sick Iran regime controlled by the bloodthirsty ayatollah terrorists have destroyed a nation, continued to pursue nuclear weapons threatening America and all of humanity, slaughtered innocent Iranians, and shed blood across the Middle East including of Americans,” Stefanik added.
She knows that “President Trump has to make some of the most difficult decisions imaginable, and there is no decision more serious that military action to protect our national security and American lives,” she continued. “God Bless our brave men and women in uniform. The American people are praying for your safety.”
