House Minority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., said Sunday he doesn’t want to see military action against Iran in the wake of attacks on two commercial ships that’ve been blamed on Tehran.
In an interview on NBC News’ “Meet The Press,” Scalise said a strong stance, however, must be maintained against the Islamic Republic.
“Our sanctions have been very effective,” he declared.
“We don’t want to see it escalate it to a military operation… We have to stand up to Iran,” he added.
Scalise also said he supports U.S. cybersecurity actions against Russia, saying the U.S. needs to do everything to prevent interference similar to 2016.
"I am glad the administration has been taking aggressive actions,” he said, referring to a New York Times report that the United States is escalating cyber attacks on Russia's electric power grid .
“You got to take every step possible… to make sure what happened in 2016… doesn’t happen again in 2020 or any other election,” he said of Russian interference.
“The bottom line is that the president is taking aggression action against Russia,” he said.
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