Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has called for the Trump administration to end negotiations with Iran and bomb Iranian nuclear facilities.
“Waste that shit,” Fetterman told The Washington Free Beacon in an interview published on Wednesday. “You’re never going to be able to negotiate with that kind of regime that has been destabilizing the region for decades already, and now we have an incredible window, I believe, to do that, to strike and destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities.”
The hawkish comments come a few weeks after US intelligence agencies said in their annual threat assessment that there’s no evidence Iran is trying to build a nuclear weapon.
Fetterman also downplayed the risk of a strike on Iran turning into a regional war, even though Iranian missiles could reach many US military bases in the region and cause thousands of American casualties.
The Pennsylvania senator, who is extremely pro-Israel, also expressed support for Israel blocking humanitarian aid from entering Gaza amid warnings that Palestinian children in the besieged territory are starving.
In a post on X responding to European countries calling Israel’s blockade “intolerable,” Fetterman said, “What’s truly intolerable? Innocent civilians held in tunnels for 565 days and counting. European allies should demand the elimination of Hamas and for the release of all remaining hostages. These actions would quickly end the suffering in Gaza.”
Since entering the Senate in 2023, Fetterman has met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu several times. When Fetterman visited Israel last year, Netanyahu told him that Israel “has had no better friend than Sen. John Fetterman.”
The Intercept reported in February that many Fetterman staffers were quitting due to the focus on Israel. One former staffer said people were “probably frustrated that working in the Fetterman office means you’re just working on Israel all the time.”
What a patriot!
America Sixth!
Nice hoodie Senator?
He's one of THE BOYS IN THE HOOD.
Fatterman should put his boots on the ground.
Left alone he probably has trouble putting boots on his feet. Yknow, when he's dressing up in workngclassface like a class-based Al Jolson.
Come on ED, no one would miss him as a target at any distance …
I'd prefer he die from another stroke.
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I wear baggy hoodies so that I can secretly play with it.
"Iran… no friend Fetterman! Israel friend Fetterman! Israel say Fetterman make fire at Iran! Fetterman want boom! Make fire Iran! Fire BAD!" The type of idiot only possible to produce at Harvard grad school. And Trump thinks Harvard is TOO FAR LEFT! I'm from Pennsylvania too, how humiliating.
Don't just cut government funding to Harvard. For the sake of humanity, take it out with bunker busters. Fire BAD!
Harvard (along with a few other Ivy League universities) had turned down Barron's application for admission, I understand.
Go Crimson!
Beat Rump!
Fetterman loves those AIPAC checks.
All you have are cheap shots, but nothing of substance. The number of lobbyists in Washington is estimated to be over 12,000— The Washington Post, January 13, 2012.
The Arab lobby in the United States is a collection of formal and informal groups and professional lobbyists in the United States paid directly by Gulf Arab states and private donors on behalf of the Arab states. — They are no fan of Iran either. They want nukes to counter Iran, and are not afraid of Israel. They are afraid of Iran armed terrorist groups.
Please go fq yourself, you filthy supporter of mass murder!
The "Gulf States" are a pack of ultra-reactionary dictatorships. The fear democracy, jusy like Isreal does.
Brilliant retort. Iran is a wellspring of democracy and human rights, right?
You can go fq yourself too, Zionist war crimes supporter.
I said nothing about Iran, jackass.
Your mother must be so proud of you
Very much so, but even though she’s an Israel supporter.
Good for her. A woman with a moral compass, brains and a heart. What happened to you?
I studied the history of the conflict. Aced a course on the subject, taught by a liberal Zionist professor, no less.
My heart hardened towards Israel when its politics became a complete right wing freak show. The election of Sharon cinched it.
My primary goal is ending US aid to Israel. At the very least, Israel shouldn't be committing war crimes and ethnic cleansing on Uncle Sammy's dime.
No US war for Israel!
No American blood for Israel!
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Funny. Sharon was the guy to pull out of Gaza, as you probably know. On destroying Hamas, you will find perfect agreement between right and left in Israel. Israel has always fought its own wars. Sure they need American weapons, but the blood is Jewish, Druze, and Israeli Arab blood.
The war against Iraq was fought for Israel.
the pullout from Gaza was meaningless as it was followed by an embargo/blockade of Gaza.
In any case, Sharon was a war criminal and you’re a defender of war criminals.
So, Ben Gvir is still in Washington. He must have shaved his head.
SHAMEFUL! The world is getting a very good look at the REAL criminals in the Middle East- Israel and the USA! When you get only one side of the story (Israel and the USA's side) you can bet that "side" is a bald-faced lie!
Are you implying that all the known terrorist groups that Iran supports are OK.
Who are these guys? Who funds them, who supports, who arms them?——-
Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG)
Gama’a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group – IG)
Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM)
Hizballah
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
PFLP-General Command (PFLP-GC)
Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C)
al-Qa’ida (AQ)
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)
Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM)
Lashkar-e Tayyiba (LeT)
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade (AAMB)
Asbat al-Ansar (AAA)
al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)
Jemaah Islamiya (JI)
Lashkar i Jhangvi (LJ)
Ansar al-Islam (AAI)
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (formerly al-Qa’ida in Iraq)
Islamic Jihad Union (IJU)
Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami/Bangladesh (HUJI-B)
al-Shabaab
Revolutionary Struggle (RS)
Kata’ib Hizballah (KH)
al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)
Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami (HUJI)
Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP)
Jaysh al-Adl (formerly Jundallah)
Army of Islam (AOI)
Indian Mujahedeen (IM)
Jemaah Anshorut Tauhid (JAT)
Abdallah Azzam Brigades (AAB)
Haqqani Network (HQN)
Ansar al-Dine (AAD)
Boko Haram
Ansaru
al-Mulathamun Battalion (AMB)
Ansar al-Shari’a in Benghazi
Ansar al-Shari’a in Darnah
Ansar al-Shari’a in Tunisia
ISIL Sinai Province (formerly Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis)
al-Nusrah Front
Mujahidin Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem (MSC)
Jaysh Rijal al-Tariq al Naqshabandi (JRTN)
ISIL-Khorasan (ISIL-K)
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s Branch in Libya (ISIL-Libya)
Al-Qa’ida in the Indian Subcontinent
Hizbul Mujahideen (HM)
ISIS-Bangladesh
ISIS-Philippines
ISIS-West Africa
ISIS-Greater Sahara
al-Ashtar Brigades (AAB)
Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM)
HAMAS
National Liberation Army (ELN)
Palestine Liberation Front (PLF)
Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
It's hilarious that you hasbara clones claim that Shia Iran is behind armed Sunni or secular leftist groups.
Fetterman knows how to end wars, not to start them. Iran continuously is providing weapons systems and other support to Hamas, Palestine Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, Houthis, and various terrorist and militant groups in Iraq, Syria, Bahrain, and elsewhere throughout the Middle East. —None of them are bastions of human rights, just anti-Israel and the USA is all that is required. Therefore, Iran is a fair target if peace loving people want to stop all this mess in the MENA region.
Yemen’s Ansar Allah, better known as the Houthis and fully supported by Iran has expanded cross-border collaboration with non-state actors in Somalia, namely the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabab and the Islamic State in Somalia (ISS), which is associated with the Islamic State group that emerged in Iraq and Syria. — Fetterman is right in his understanding of whom the world is dealing with.
I see the hasbara and Zionists 'R Us has opened for business in the antiwar.com comments sections.
that kind of regime that has been destabilizing the region for decades????
The region was stable for 6 centuries before Israel.
"The region was stable for 6 centuries before Israel." It was? LOL.
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Six centuries before Israel would be from 1347 AD to 1947 AD.
So “stable” except for the Timur conquests, the Ottoman Interregnum, the Byzantine-Ottoman Wars, the Yazidi uprising, the Şahkulu Rebellion, the Ottoman-Persian Wars, the Jelali revolts, the 1585-1711 Ottoman Druze wars, the Cretan War, the Edime revolt, the Ottoman invasion of Bahrain, the Patrona Halil upraising, the French invasions of Egypt and Syria, the Baban uprising, the Kabakçı Mustafa revolt, the Ottoman -Saudi War, the Egyptian-Ottoman War, the Syrian peasant revolts in Palestine and Transjordan and among the Alawites, the Druze revolt, yet another Egyptian-Ottoman War, the Russo-Persian War, the Cizre uprisind, the Atçalı Kel Mehmet revolt, Prince Mohammad of Soran uprising, another Yezidi uprising, the Sîncar uprising, the First Botan uprising the Bedr Khan Bey uprising, the Culemerg uprising, the Bedirhan Bey uprising, the Massacre of Alepp, the Yezdan Sher uprising, the Druze-Maronite Conflict, the Qatari–Bahraini War, the Russo-Turkish War, the Urabi Revolt, the Shaykh ‘Ubaydullah of Nehri and Shemdinan uprising, the Saudi Civil War, the Tobacco Rebellion, the Hamidian massacres, the Zeitun Rebellion, the Saudi-Rashidi War, the Persian Constitutional Revolution, the Young Turk Revolution, the Adana Massacre, the Hauran Druze Rebellion, the Zaraniq rebellion, the 1913 Ottoman coup, and World War One.
But except for those, yeah, mostly stable.
This is the guy that the Democratic Party "leadership" says we're supposed to admire.
Sorry, I'll pass.
Apr 22.,2025 'Open to talks but…': Iranian Prez on US' 'pressure tactics' in negotiations | US-Iran nuke tensions
TIranian President Masoud Pezeshkian expressed openness to reaching an agreement with the United States in ongoing indirect talks, provided that Iran's national interests are preserved. Speaking during a meeting with provincial governors, Pezeshkian emphasized that Iran is neither overly optimistic nor pessimistic about the negotiations. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei echoed this sentiment, stressing caution while highlighting Iran's resistance to coercion. The latest round of talks, mediated by Oman, was described as ‘very good’ by US President Donald Trump.
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Lurch is a psychopathic POS.
Hope he has another stoke soon!
Is “Pro-Israel”, pro WAR?!…
Looks like he needs to adjust his meds.
“Waste that shit.” Exactly what comes to mind when I think of John Fetterman.
We have no real reason for war against Iran so what IS this crap?
I have noted (since 1978), the willingness of many muddle-Americans to wreak havoc and revenge on Iran, first for their taking American hostages (cause celebre) and next, gosh durn hardbit prejudice against theocracy (some, albeit well founded). But even then yet, no real reasons for a full blown war. Extremists in Congress like Fetterman always need wars- primarily to distract voters from how incompetent their terms actually are. Or perhaps to pimp for their AIPAC friends.