The White House tried for a fifth day Wednesday to explain why the United States is waging war in Iran — this time it was press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s turn — as Democrats said the president has not made a clear case.
Leavitt led her Wednesday press briefing by dubbing the Iranian government led by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, killed in Saturday strikes, the “rogue Iranian terrorist regime.” Trump and other top administration officials had pointed to Tehran’s nuclear and missile programs as the main reasons for President Donald Trump’s surprise and ongoing war.
She again listed the nuclear and missile programs as part of the administration’s war justification, but added a desire to sink the Islamic Republic’s navy. Leavitt also added a fourth reason to the ever-growing list of reasons why Trump defied his decades-old anti-war views.
