{"id":13263,"date":"2026-03-10T20:28:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T20:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/13263\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T20:28:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T20:28:06","slug":"ted-cruz-shuts-down-extended-iran-war-talk-says-its-not-iraq-amid-oil-price-spike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/13263\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz shuts down extended Iran war talk, says it\u2019s \u2018not Iraq\u2019 amid oil price spike"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sen. Ted Cruz<\/a>, R-Texas, shut down the possibility that the war in Iran would become a long, protracted engagement for the U.S. during an interview on Tuesday, and said he wouldn\u2019t support an extended operation in the region.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s any possibility that this becomes a long, protracted military engagement<\/a>. You\u2019re not going to see hundreds of thousands of boots on the ground. You\u2019re not going to see us there months and then years. Iran is not Iraq. They are very, very different. I think the Iraq war was a mistake. I would not support a major and extended invasion in Iran. This is very different. These are targeted, but very consequential strikes to take out a very direct threat,\u201d he told CNBC\u2019s \u201cSquawk Box.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cruz sounded the alarm on Iran and the regime<\/a>\u2018s attacks against Americans over the last 40 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwice, the Ayatollah has hired hitmen and sent them to try to murder President Trump. And so I think President Trump made a very reasonable decision that he was going to act as commander in chief to stop this threat to America,\u201d the Texas senator said.<\/p>\n

GOP SENATORS SAYS TRUMP\u2019S STRIKES \u2018SIGNIFICANTLY DEGRADED\u2019 IRAN BUT EMPHASIZE ATTACKS NOT \u2018FOREVER WARS\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

The senator argued that the spike in oil prices would be temporary.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn terms of the oil prices, we\u2019ve seen a temporary spike. I don\u2019t think it will be extended. Naturally, when you have military conflict in the Middle East, that predictably has an impact on oil prices. But I think over the long term, this will put downward pressure on oil prices.\u201d<\/p>\n

The war with Iran has sent global oil prices skyrocketing past $100 a barrel as the regime\u2019s stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz<\/a> has all but stopped tankers from using the shipping lane.<\/p>\n

With oil higher, gasoline and diesel prices are rising fast.<\/p>\n

WHERE AMERICAN SUPPORT FOR TRUMP\u2019S IRAN STRIKES STAND AS NEW POLLS ROLL IN<\/a><\/p>\n

President Donald Trump told Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst that he is \u201cnot happy\u201d with Iran\u2019s choice of Mojtaba Khamenei<\/a> as the new supreme leader.<\/p>\n

Trump warned in a Truth Social post Monday that Iran will be hit \u201ctwenty times harder\u201d if the regime does anything that stops the flow of oil within the Strait of Hormuz. Trump said the U.S. would \u201ctake out easily destroyable targets that will make it virtually impossible for Iran to ever be built back\u201d as a nation but that he prays that does not happen.<\/p>\n

CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE<\/a><\/p>\n

Cruz was also pressed on Trump, saying Monday that the U.S. was nearing the end of the war.\u00a0<\/p>\n

CNBC\u2019s Becky Quick asked, \u201cIf we\u2019re near the end to that, my assumption was at that point that maybe we would live without the regime change. But you\u2019re convinced that the president is waiting for a regime change \u2014 that could take a little longer than some people are anticipating?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the president is right, regardless that we\u2019re near the end of it,\u201d Cruz responded. \u201cIt is certainly possible this lasts a couple more weeks, but I don\u2019t think we\u2019re looking at a many-month or many-year engagement. I think this is focused at delivering on concrete objectives, and I think many of them are being delivered on already.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

When asked for comment, the White House directed Fox News Digital to the president\u2019s comments<\/a> during a Monday press conference where he said the war could end soon and touted what the U.S. has achieved in its strikes so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, shut down the possibility that the war in Iran would become a long, protracted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[7175,7176,7178,7179,94,7177,42,549,7180],"class_list":{"0":"post-13263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-central-nebraska","9":"tag-grand-island","10":"tag-hastings","11":"tag-huskers","12":"tag-iraq","13":"tag-kearney","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-unk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116206770835804739","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}