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US Strikes On Iran Open Rift In Trump's Support Base

US President Donald Trump's announcement of US strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities has divided his MAGA movement (Credit: AFP)

Donald Trump's decision to strike Iran has been cheered by mainstream Republicans but it has exposed deep fissures between the hawks and the isolations in the "MAGA" movement that swept the self-styled peacemaker US president back to power.

Trump ran as an "America First" Republican who would avoid the foreign entanglements of his predecessors, tapping into his movement's unease about prolonged wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as more recent conflagrations in Gaza and Ukraine.

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