House Speaker Mike Johnson rejected the idea that the United States is at war with Iran despite the fact that President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have both said has said the country is at war.
The speaker delivered his weekly press conference and rejected the notion that the House needed to have a vote on the War Powers Act.
“We’re not at war right now, we’re four days into a very specific clear mission and operation,” Johnson told reporters. Rather, Johnson has said that Iran had declared war on the United States.
The claim comes despite the fact that the president announced strikes on Iran alongside Israel. The White House and the Pentagon have dubbed the mission “Operation Epic Fury.”
Johnson said that the United States is close to having control of the skies over Iran, which he said would lead to the mission concluding soon.
He then repeated Trump’s call for Iranians to lead a revolution to create a new regime. The president has told the Iranian people “When we are finished, take over your government” and that “This will be probably your only chance for generations.”
Despite Johnson’s words, both Trump have called the operation a “war.”
“The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties,” he said when announcing the operations Saturday morning. “That often happens in war.”
In addition, Hegseth has also called the operation a war in his remarks.
“This is not a so-called regime change war, but the regime sure did change, and the world is better off for it,” Hegseth said this week.
