Trump weighing options for deploying up to thousands of ground troops in Iran

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America’s Gulf state allies want to see an end to the war, with some of them concerned about the U.S. leaving Iran’s hard-line regime in power and vengeful, NBC News has reported.

Trump also is increasingly navigating criticism from some of his own supporters over his decision to go to war in Iran. Amanda Robbins told NBC News this week that she regrets voting for Trump three times in her home state of Pennsylvania because of rising gas prices due to the war in Iran. “That was my bad,” Robbins said of her vote.

The majority of voters — 54% — disapprove of Trump’s handling of the war in Iran, according to a NBC News poll earlier this month.

A top Trump ally also resigned from the administration this week in protest of the war in Iran. Joe Kent, who served as Trump’s director of the National Counterterrorism Center, announced his

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