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Top Republican confirms: Trump orders “boots on the ground” in Iran

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by Frank Holmes, reporter

As Operation Epic Fury hurtles toward its deadline, President Donald Trump will put U.S. combat troops on the ground in Iran, a leading congressman dealing with military affairs has confessed.

Experts don’t “see any other way” to conclude the war on the president’s terms, the congressman said.

“I personally think it’s going to be boots — at least special ops,” referring to elite U.S. troops who carry out special operations — “on the ground,” said Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Texas, on Monday.

Fallon predicted U.S. special operations forces will be joined by “allies in the region and air cover,” presumably Israel and potentially a handful of Gulf states.

The Texas Republican is well-placed to know about future deployments of U.S. troops. Fallon is chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel.

And he says politicians are going to put U.S. soldiers in a position to fight Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces, organized terror cells, hostile civilians, and likely a plethora of roadside IEDs in the days, weeks, months, or years to come.

“I just don’t see any other way,” said Fallon on the April 6 episode of Fox Business Network’s Mornings with Maria. “We can’t leave until the job is done.”

Although Fallon is uniquely plugged into military affairs, he’s not the only congressman complacently endorsing a full-scale U.S. invasion of Iran.

“We did Iwo Jima, we can do this!” yelled Senator Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., excited by the prospect of Americans invading Kharg Island.

Graham promised at the very outset of the war that “there will be no American boots on the ground.”

Others RINOs have tried to coax President Trump into launching a ground war by stroking his ego.

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo bragged that President Trump is so brave, he’ll follow the neoconservatives’ instructions.

“He’s not afraid to put Americans on the ground in order to achieve that objective,” Pompeo, a confirmed Republican member of the Deep State, told former anti-Trump congressman-turned-Fox News host Trey Gowdy on the Easter edition of Sunday Night in America. “I’m confident President Trump’s going to see this through to its proper conclusion.”

Just a few months earlier, Pompeo said “the risk that we have to send our young men and women to risk their lives in the Middle East someday” is “reduced enormously by having a shoulder-to-shoulder partnership with Israel.”

His successor, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, and others have confirmed the United States got drawn into the February 28 attack after Israel vowed to strike Iran, triggering an Iranian attack against the United States.

Still other Republicans seem to be resigning themselves to the possibility of a U.S.-led Iranian invasion.

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“If the alternative is between having troops on the ground and allowing Iran to have a nuclear weapon, that decision is already made,” said Rep. Greg Murphy, R-N.C., in an interview with MS NOW (formerly MSNBC).

Then again, Murphy’s judgment might be called into question for the fact that he’s a Republican willing to give an interview to MS NOW.

Other Republicans have tried to deflect blame onto the president. “The commander in chief has a lot of latitude,” said Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart, R-Fla.

If the president sends ground troops to Iran, everyone agrees it will be an unpopular, costly—and deadly—war.

Two out of every three Americans oppose sending U.S. troops to Iran in any capacity, according to an Associated Press/NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll released March 25. Only one in five supports it.

Almost four out of five independent voters (78 percent) say American soldiers shouldn’t fight in Iran, found a Data for Progress poll from the middle of March.

A ground invasion would require hundreds of thousands, or possibly well over a million soldiers, to succeed, according to experts.

“Ukraine is less than half the size and population of Iran. Russia invaded with 250,000, failed, and now has 800,000 there and is still not winning. So one can conclude that a successful operation on a large scale in Iran would need a lot more than that,” Lieutenant General Sir Nick Borton, who was director of overseas operations in the UK’s Ministry of Defence, told The Independent.

“Invasion of Iran, given its population size, would require as many 1.6 million troops,” concluded a study from the Cato Institute. Since only 20 percent of U.S. troops are combat troops, “committing 1.6 million personnel would mean using roughly three-quarters of the entire US military, including combat forces America simply doesn’t have.”

The number of U.S. casualties could be astronomical.

Some of the Iran war advocates are well aware of the potential costs but think they’re worth it.

Iran is “five times the size of Iraq,” noted Fallon.

Iraq, which ended in a disappointing U.S. withdrawal after eight years of U.S. occupation, had 25 million people. Iran has a population of 93 million. And many of those are far more fanatically devoted to Shi’a Islam, Muslim jihad, and bringing on the Islamic end times than their Sunni neighbors.

Iran’s leaders promise to unleash fury and death on invaders.

“Your reckless moves are dragging the United States into a living HELL for every single family, and our whole region is going to burn because you insist on following Netanyahu’s commands,” wrote Iran’s Speaker of Parliament Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf. “Make no mistake: You won’t gain anything through war crimes.”

But Fallon claims occupying Iran will win over their hearts and minds.

“Once an action like that is taken, I do believe that people are going to rise up, and the (Iranian Guard) is going to melt away, and then we can see some kind of moderate faction coming out, and then eventually taking over.”

But President Trump already called on Iranians to rise up and overthrow their government in the first days of the operation…and nothing happened.

And Americans have heard leaders promise U.S. troops “will be greeted as liberators” before.

The backlash may explain why some of the most MAGA congressmen oppose an Iranian war.

“I am a no on any war supplementals,” which send U.S. tax dollars to prosecute the war, said Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo. “I am tired of the industrial war complex getting all of our hard-earned dollars. I have got folks in Colorado who can’t afford to live.”

“I’m really, really hopeful this doesn’t turn into a boots-on-the-ground situation,” said conservative Republican Rep. Eli Crane, R-Ariz.

“I will not support troops on the ground in Iran,” Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., posted on social media.

Former Navy SEAL Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., says he’s been “very clear” with the president that he opposes a ground invasion of Iran.

“I think we certainly do not want to get embroiled in another Forever War,” said Rep. Ryan MacKenzie, R-Pa.

Even Speaker Johnson said sending U.S. GIs into ground combat “should not be necessary.”

And there’s another coming casualty of an Iran invasion.

“We lose 60 to 70 seats” in 2026 election, an unnamed House Republican warned Politico.

Last Tuesday, even Graham was calling on President Trump to “wind down the war and wind up efforts for an historic peace deal.”

“We’ve got to get our act together if we (Republicans) want to keep this majority, and the path that we’re going doesn’t look very promising,” said Boebert, “We need America First policies right now.”

Nonetheless, the president has left the door open, according to conservative media sources.

When The Epoch Times asked him if he would rule out putting U.S. troops on the ground in Iran, President Donald Trump replied with one word: “No.”

On Easter Sunday morning, President Trump promised on Truth Social that “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran.”

He set a deadline for Tuesday at 8 p.m. Eastern time, an ultimatum Vice President J.D. Vance seemed to confirm during a trip to Budapest, Hungary.

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About the Author

Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”