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>Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas), a former Air Force officer, said Monday he expects President Trump to deploy troops in Iran and suggested such an escalation is unavoidable.

>“I just don’t see any other way,” Fallon said in an interview on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” when asked whether he thinks “we’re going to have some boots on the ground.”

>Fallon, the chair of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel, said he thinks it’s important the U.S. sees its mission through in Iran.

>“I personally think it’s going to be boots — at least special ops, American special operators — on the ground, with allies in the region and air cover,” Fallon said.

>“We have to change the tact of the Tehran government, or we can’t leave,” he continued. “We can’t leave until the job is done.”

>Fallon noted the size of Iran would make it difficult to achieve victory in the country without deploying ground troops, comparing Iran’s 93 million people with Iraq’s 25 million people when the U.S. invaded it more than two decades ago.

>“It’s five times the size of Iraq,” Fallon said. “It’s larger in size than Spain, France, the United Kingdom and Germany combined.”

>He said he expects any ground operation, however, to win the support of the Iranian people and facilitate a transition to a more moderate government.

>“But here’s the thing that’s in our favor: 80 percent of the people in Iran hate this regime,” he added. “So once an action like that is taken, I do believe that people are going to rise up, and the IRGC is going to melt away, and then we can see some kind of moderate faction coming out, and then eventually taking over.”

>After the moves, only about 425 JASSM-ER out of a prewar inventory of 2,300 will remain available for the rest of the globe. That would be roughly enough for 17 B-1B bombers on a single mission. Another 75 or so are “unserviceable” because of damage or technical faults.

>US operations through the first four weeks of the war consumed more than 1,000 JASSM-ERs, the person said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. US aircraft also fired 47 during the raid to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, the person said.

>The UN Security Council is set to vote Friday on a Bahraini proposal that would authorize countries to use “all defensive means necessary” to secure the Strait of Hormuz. 

>The official said Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin and that there was an expectation Russia would not block the resolution. The official added the crown prince was expected to speak with “relevant” officials in China, with the expectation Beijing would also not block it.