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Home / US-Israel-Iran / Inside Mar-a-Lago’s makeshift Situation Room as Trump strikes Iran
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March 2, 2026

Inside Mar-a-Lago’s makeshift Situation Room as Trump strikes Iran

Benjamin Friedman, policy director at the Washington-based think tank Defense Priorities, told The Daily Telegraph: “It will be difficult for Vance to say he didn’t agree with this” in the future, particularly if, as is widely expected, he runs for the presidency himself in 2028.

“But I think he wants to not be seen as a leading cheerleader for it, so the people on the kind of anti-war right don’t abandon him as their candidate.”

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