{"id":19740,"date":"2026-08-15T19:15:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T19:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/15\/us-senator-chris-murphy-war-with-iran-unwinnable\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T19:15:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T19:15:39","slug":"us-senator-chris-murphy-war-with-iran-unwinnable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/15\/us-senator-chris-murphy-war-with-iran-unwinnable\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. senator says war with Iran was unwinnable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut has said that war with Iran has been \u201cunwinnable\u201d from the outset and that its consequences could turn into a disaster for U.S. foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>In a message on the social media platform X, he wrote that no amount of emphasis on how catastrophic this war is would be an exaggeration. Murphy also described the event as \u201cAmerica\u2019s illegal aggression on Iranian soil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The senator went on to say that, in his view, the arrogance of U.S. President Donald Trump had led to the biggest foreign policy disaster for the country since the Iraq war.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Murphy is one of the Democratic Party\u2019s well-known figures in the U.S. Senate and represents the state of Connecticut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Senator Chris Murphy says war with Iran was unwinnable and warns it could become a disaster for American foreign policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}