{"id":215449,"date":"2023-10-17T22:43:38","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T22:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/?p=215449"},"modified":"2023-10-17T22:43:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T22:43:38","slug":"us-draws-up-plans-to-use-military-force-if-iran-enters-israel-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/world-news\/us-draws-up-plans-to-use-military-force-if-iran-enters-israel-war\/","title":{"rendered":"US draws up plans to use military force if Iran enters Israel war"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>US draws up plans to use military force if Iran enters Israel war: Congress writes legislation to give the go-ahead &#8216;if necessary&#8217; as Middle East conflict intensifies<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul said his committee is drafting legislation to green light U.S. military force in the Middle East\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>McCaul made the comments Monday on CNN but wouldn&#8217;t confirm if the White House made the request for a Authorization of Use for Military Force\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8216;I hope I never have to mark this bill up,&#8217; McCaul said\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair\u00a0Michael McCaul said Monday that his committee is drafting legislation to green light U.S. military force in the Middle East if the conflict between Israel and Hamas becomes a wider proxy war with Iran.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McCaul&#8217;s comment, made during an interview with CNN, came as the White House announced President Joe Biden would travel to Israel and Jordan in an effort to calm tensions as the crisis deepens.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Republican wouldn&#8217;t say if the White House had asked his committee to draw up an official &#8216;Authorization of Use for Military Force,&#8217; telling the network: &#8216;I don&#8217;t want to confirm that. It&#8217;s just that there is concern that &#8211; we, I&#8217;m currently, we&#8217;re currently drafting one in the event it&#8217;s necessary.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also told CNN he hoped the U.S. wouldn&#8217;t have to put boots on the ground.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I hope I never have to mark this bill up,&#8217; McCaul said. &#8216;But we have a situation in the Middle East that&#8217;s growing day by day with intensity and if Hezbollah gets involved, Iran has already threatened if Gaza is, you know, if Israel goes, you know, if [Israel Defense Force] goes into Gaza that they&#8217;re gonna come out.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/17\/17\/76667119-12640643-image-a-6_1697558703140.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Israeli soldiers are positioned in tanks near the border of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday.\u00a0\u00a0House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul said Monday that his committee is drafting legislation to green light U.S. military force in the Middle East if the conflict deepens<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/17\/17\/76667379-12640643-image-a-12_1697558849589.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>House Foreign Affairs Chair Michael McCaul said on CNN that his committee is drafting an\u00a0Authorization of Use for Military Force in case the current crisis in the Middle East grows into a proxy war with Iran\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah is the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group that has been exchanging fire with Israel at the country&#8217;s northern border.<\/p>\n<p>Sources told Reuters that last week&#8217;s Hezbollah attacks had, so far, been designed to be contained to avoid another major war.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s defense minister expressed Sunday that Israel had no interest in waging a war on its northern border.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the Pentagon has reportedly selected 2,000 troops\u00a0for a deployment to the Middle East, with officials saying Monday that they would serve in a medical or advisory role and not engaged in combat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the Pentagon sent a second carrier strike group,\u00a0\u00a0centered around the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier, toward the eastern Mediterranean on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>A carrier strike group is a naval force comprised of an aircraft carrier at its center, as well as support ships and attack submarines.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. military has 11 carrier strike groups, each with enough firepower to match the militaries of many small and midsize countries.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/17\/17\/76667113-12640643-image-a-7_1697558707983.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sailors man the rails of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group deployed from Norfolk, Virginia on Friday and will join the USS Gerald R. Ford in the eastern Mediterranean<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/17\/16\/76666559-12640643-image-a-1_1697558112288.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The USS Gerald R. Ford (pictured) was ordered to the region on Sunday, October 8, hours after Hamas&#8217; violent terrorist attack on Israel\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The carrier strike group centered around the USS Gerald R. Ford had already deployed to the region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s considered the most advanced aircraft carrier in the fleet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced the deployment of the USS Gerald R. Ford on Sunday, October 8, in the hours following Hamas&#8217; brutal terrorist attack that kickstarted the current crisis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since then more than 1,500 Israelis have lost their lives.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Gaza, more than 3,000 Palestinians have been killed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thirty Americans have been killed in the conflict.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The presence of the Navy&#8217;s two most powerful warships is supposed to serve as a\u00a0deterrent to Iran and its proxies, including Hezbollah, to stand down.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McCaul told CNN he was reluctant to name Iran in the\u00a0Authorization of Use for Military Force initial draft.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;d prefer not to put Iran as a nation state in there. It would be more Iran proxies, you know, like Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran-backed Shi\u2019ia militias, but if Iran gets directly involved, then we would have to put them on the list,&#8217; he said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12640643\/US-draws-plans-use-military-force-Iran-enters-Israel-war-Congress-writes-legislation-ahead-necessary-Middle-East-conflict-intensifies.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US draws up plans to use military force if Iran enters Israel war: Congress writes legislation to give the go-ahead &#8216;if necessary&#8217; as Middle East conflict intensifies House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul said his committee is drafting legislation to green light U.S. military force in the Middle East\u00a0 McCaul made the comments Monday on CNN but wouldn&#8217;t confirm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>US draws up plans to use military force if Iran enters Israel war - Best World News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/world-news\/us-draws-up-plans-to-use-military-force-if-iran-enters-israel-war\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"US draws up plans to use military force if Iran enters Israel war - Best World News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"US draws up plans to use military force if Iran enters Israel war: Congress writes legislation to give the go-ahead &#8216;if necessary&#8217; 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