ON 10 March 2026, US congressmen, after receiving an in-camera briefing from President Donald Trump’s administration on the war against Iran, demanded a public hearing on the subject. According to the lawmakers, the briefing raised more questions than answers, as the White House was not able to clearly explain why the USA entered the conflict. What were its goals? What was the exit strategy? What were the contingency plans? And how long could the war last? According to Al Jazeera, the lawmakers rejected the Trump administration’s argument that the strikes on Iran were justified as a response to an “imminent threat”, countering that US intelligence agencies had stated before the start of the war that they had no evidence of an imminent Iranian threat to the USA or its facilities across the Middle East. Even Republican senators accused the Trump administration of “changing its narrative and rationale for the war on a daily basis.”

Earlier, on 28 February 2026, while the USA and Iran were in the middle of third-party (Oman)-brokered nuclear negotiations, the USA and Israel surprised the world by launching massive strikes on Iran. For the entire world, it was not only a breach of global trust in peace negotiations but also one that lacked essential legal authorization from the UN/UNSC or even the US Congress. After witnessing the conflict entering its third week, it can be safely inferred that it was a decision taken in haste, not thoroughly........

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