Israel Iranian attacks divide Democrats and Republicans on policy

President Donald Trump is urging Iran to return to talks with the U.S. over the Islamic State’s nuclear program “before it’s too late.”

The president, making his comments on day four of the missile strikes and aerial attacks between Iran and Israel that were triggered by Israel’s initial attack which killed top members of Iran’s military.

“They should talk, and they should talk immediately,” Trump told reporters on Monday in Canada, where he was attending an annual meeting of top western leaders.

The daily bombardments between the two countries, which have led to rising death tolls in each nation, have dominated global headlines and sparked concerns of an even wider war in the Middle East.

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And back in the U.S., the attacks have exacerbated already existing divisions within both the Democratic and Republican parties.

Democrats, who have grappled with internal splits for a couple of years over Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza, spoke with two voices in the hours after Israel’s initial attack on Iran and Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu’s aggressive military strategy.

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in the Senate, said soon after the first attacks that “I have long said that Israel has a right to defend itself and that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.”

And Sen. Jackie Rosen of Nevada, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that “Israel acted in self-defense against an attack from Iran, and the U.S. must continue to stand with Israel, as it has for decades, at this dangerous moment.”

Smoke and flames rise from an apartment building following an Iranian missile attack in Tel Aviv on Jun. 13, 2025. (Ilia Yefimovich/picture alliance via Getty Images)

But Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the top Democrat on the powerful panel, warned that “Israel’s alarming decision to launch airstrikes on Iran is a reckless escalation that risks igniting regional violence.”

And Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington State, a former head of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said that “Netanyahu must not be allowed to pull America into another forever war. Instead, we must immediately push for negotiated…