Prominent Democrat warns against Israel drawing US into Iran war

"Will you commit to us not bombing (Iran) ... unless we're directly hit?" California representative Ro Khanna asked US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at a House hearing on Thursday, referring to any preemptive preemptive attack.

"Would you agree ... that Netanyahu is itching for a fight? If Netanyahu uses American missiles to hit Iran, he's going to drag us into a war there," Khanna added, in a rare public intervention by a Democratic lawmaker on Trump's Iran policy.

"Our military knows that you cannot just throw hits (and) eliminate Iran's nuclear capability. They'll simply go underground, and they will then end monitoring," he said.

"Will you stand up today and make it clear to Netanyahu that the escalation that he's threatening just yesterday is not in the American interest, that you should not be dragging America into a war with Iran?"