The president has not fully rejected the possibility of deploying U.S. troops on the ground in Iran.
Hardly any Americans would support Donald Trump sending U.S. troops to Iran to assist in his already unpopular war, according to a brutal new poll.Only 34 percent said they would support sending special forces into Iran , while a majority said they oppose the U.
S. deploying any ground troops at all. Nearly two-thirds believe Trump will eventually order troops into a large-scale groundOverall, Trump’s multibillion-dollar Iran war is approved by just 37 percent of U.S. adults, while 59 percent disapprove, including about one in five Republicans. More than 2,000 people have been killed since the Iran ar broke out, including 13 U.S. service members.Trump has said he does not want to put boots on the ground, but has also coyly suggested that could change. “I’m not putting troops anywhere,” Trump told a reporter in the Oval Office on Thursday. “If I were, I certainly wouldn’t tell you.”Two days earlier, the president also said he was “not afraid” to put boots on the ground in Iran during an Oval Office meeting with Ireland’s prime minister, Micheál Martin.an additional $200 billionthat the Trump administration is weighing the possibility of deploying air and naval forces to help oil tankers secure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, the closed-off shipping route through which around one-fifth of the world’s oil supply passes. One of Donald Trump's main 2024 campaign pledges is that the U.S. would not start any wars while he is president., Iran’s economic lifeline that handles nearly all of the country’s crude exports, which the U.S. attacked last week. Sources told Reuters such a move would be extremely risky, because Iran could fire missiles and drones on the island that houses its main oil export terminal. Any plan to send U.S. troops into the Middle East would represent a major escalation in the conflict that Trump has repeatedly insisted will soon be over.“At the height of combat the Iraq War cost around $140 billion per year. If the Pentagon is asking for $200 billion they are asking for a long war,” Gallego posted on X.
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