Then-special representative for Venezuela under the Trump administration, Elliott Abrams, speaks during a briefing at the U.S. Department of State on February 18, 2020, in Washington, D.C.At a House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee hearing on Thursday, witnesses proposed confronting Iran directly by deploying more military capabilities to the Middle East and the authorization of the use of force.
One of the witnesses of the hearing — billed as “Israel and the Middle East at a Crossroads: How Tehran’s Terror Campaigns Threatens the U.S. and our Allies” — was Kirsten Fontenrose. Fontenrose, a former Trump administration official,that the U.S. should pass an Authorization for the Use of Military Force , an open-ended congressional resolution that would authorize the president to engage in military action against Iran.
Abrams argued we should take “military moves that suggest to Iran we’re serious, for example having the force structure there.” Abrams is a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, which accepted CNAS spokesperson David McKenzie told RS that CNAS “accepts funds from a broad range of sources provided they are for purposes that are in keeping with its mission” and provided aRed Six Solutions and Council on Foreign Relations did not immediately respond to a request for comment.plenty of consensus on the panel towards a more confrontational approach with Iran. “If you look across the recommendations in our testimonies, there is a lot of shared thinking here.