President Biden is under pressure from hawkish members of Congress to intensify strikes on targets associated with Iran, both inside Iran and beyond, following the deaths of three U.S. service members in a drone attack in Jordan.

Senate Minority Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) called for “serious, crippling costs” to Iran, “not only on front-line terrorist proxies, but on their Iranian sponsors who wear American blood as a badge of honor.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), said in a statement the attacks the U.S. has carried out on Iranian proxies outside Iran “will not deter Iranian aggression,” calling to “strike targets of significance inside Iran.”

“The only answer to these attacks must be devastating military retaliation against Iran’s terrorist forces, both in Iran and across the Middle East,” said Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.). “Anything less will confirm Joe Biden as a coward unworthy of being commander-in-chief.”

Senator John Cornyn, in a social media post on X, stated, “Target Tehran,” later specifying that he advocates for the U.S. to strike Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its Quds Force branch, Axios reported.

In response to assaults on U.S. forces due to American support for Israel, the United States has been carrying out strikes against Iranian-backed militias in Yemen and Iraq.

Written by B.C. Begley