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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. As anti-government protests continue in Iran, President Trump

has vowed to support the country's peaceful demonstrations, saying the U.S. would take military

action against the Islamic Republic if it killed protesters. But as NPR's Elena Moore reports,

that threat of strikes has some Republicans on Capitol Hill concerned.

In an interview with ABC News, Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky argued that if Trump

attacks Iran to support protesters, it could end up backfiring.

So when you bomb a country, then people tend to rally around their own flag. They tend to see,

this is a foreign country coming in and They tend to see this is the,

you know, a foreign country coming in and bombing us. He also said the U.S. shouldn't be,

quote, involved with every freedom movement around the world and that a president is

required to talk to Congress before ordering strikes on another country. Paul is one of a handful

of GOP lawmakers who have recently urged Trump to

consult Congress before taking military action in global conflicts. Elena Moore, NPR News.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem tells CNN that Minneapolis's police chief and its mayor

have, quote, politicized the federal deployment and inflamed the public after the

ice shooting death of Renee Good last week. Mayor Jacob Fry says Noam is making the city far less

safe. I think it's a fair point to say, well, these ICE agents are being put in a horrible

position because they're asked to do things that are not legal or are unconstitutional.

But here's the thing. They're still doing them.

And we are still dealing with the repercussions here in the city.

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