Christian leaders react to the US-Israeli strikes in Iran, death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
5. Rev. Raphael Warnock
Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., who pastors at the Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, spiritual home of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Atlanta, condemned the attacks, saying in a statement that “Americans have long been weary of forever wars in the Middle East.”
“The Trump administration’s dramatic and deadly escalation in Iran risks yet another sad chapter of decades-long entanglements,” Warnock said. “Given the lack of a clear plan, it risks increased instability in the region while endangering American troops and harming America’s national security.”
The Democrat senator insists that a “wider regional conflict” will not make the world safer and “would increase instability and uncertainty at a moment when our focus should be on the pressing problems we face at home.”
“Let’s be clear: the Iranian regime is brutal and destabilizing,” Warnock said. “It cannot be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon. But the President has not explained why diplomatic talks that were underway this week are no longer viable and diplomacy no longer available. Instead, he has said in word and deed that this is war, a power that the Constitution reserves for Congress alone.”
