US forces will be forced out of West Asia, other host countries: Iranian lawmaker
A senior Iranian lawmaker says US troops will eventually be forced out of countries in West Asia and beyond amid growing anti-US sentiment.
Ebrahim Azizi, head of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, said in a post on X that the United States would ultimately be forced to abandon its military footprint across the region.
"The day is not far off when you will be expelled not only from the region but also from all the countries that today host your terrorist bases," Azizi wrote.
"That will be the day," he said, "when the US will have to spend all the resources now devoted to your overseas bases on securing your own homeland."
The post included an image of public protests against Japan over the presence of US troops on the island of Okinawa, where longstanding tensions over noise pollution, environmental damage, and crimes committed by military personnel continue to boil over.
The remarks come amid growing criticism of US President Donald Trump’s costly but futile war of aggression on Iran, an adventure that he began in late February, only to realize that continuing it would impose massive financial and hardware pressure on the US government and public.
Critics have doubted official figures released by the Pentagon suggesting the war has cost US taxpayers some $37.5 billion, saying the bill is much higher and could amount to hundreds of billions.
Trump's opponents have argued that resources spent on the war would be better used to address challenges at home.
In a post on X on Tuesday, Democratic Senator Chris Coons said the money spent on Trump's "disastrous war in Iran" could instead have been used to lower healthcare costs, feed children and support American families.
"Every dollar spent on Trump's disastrous war in Iran is money that could be lowering health care costs, feeding our children, and supporting families here at home," Coons wrote.
"What else could we have gotten for the tens of billions of dollars this war of choice has cost?"
Coons' remarks echo a broader debate in the United States over the growing economic and political costs of the war against Iran.
The war has fueled criticism over rising military spending and its impact on domestic priorities, while recent opinion polls have shown a majority of Americans oppose continued military aggression against Iran.
Trump, however, has dismissed the economic hardships caused by the war as temporary.
He has also downplayed the deaths of American troops, arguing that the toll is small compared with the casualties suffered in wars such as Vietnam.
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