Mike Johnson calls off Israel trip amid Iran conflict

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is calling disconnected his planned travel to Jerusalem this coming play successful airy of the ongoing struggle betwixt Israel and Iran.

"Due to the analyzable concern presently unfolding successful Iran and Israel, Speaker Ohana and I person made the determination to postpone the peculiar league of the Knesset," Johnson said successful a statement.

"We look guardant to rescheduling the code successful the adjacent aboriginal and nonstop our prayers to the radical of Israel and the Middle East."

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Speaker Mike Johnson is postponing a travel to Israel but said helium stands down Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's moves. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Johnson had planned to code the Knesset, Israel's parliament, this coming Sunday.

It's a motion of the worsening situation successful the Middle East aft Israel, which said Iran was dangerously adjacent to a atomic weapon, launched preemptive strikes successful Tehran that deed atomic enrichment sites and killed apical subject officials.

Johnson, similar astir Republicans, backed Israel's moves.

Israel's aerial defence targets Iranian missiles successful the entity of Tel Aviv successful Israel, connected Jun. 16, 2025. (MATAN GOLAN/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

"Israel and the United States person been united, including successful our shared insistence that Iran indispensable ne'er get a atomic weapon. President Trump and his medication person worked tirelessly to guarantee that outcome," the talker said successful a connection connected Friday.

"Unfortunately, Iran has refused to hold and adjacent declared yesterday its intent to physique a caller enrichment facility. Israel decided it needed to instrumentality enactment to support itself. They were intelligibly wrong their close to bash so."

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Residents ticker a damaged flat successful Tehran, Iran, aboriginal Friday, Jun. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Israel's subject said Monday that it has established "aerial superiority" implicit Iran's forces arsenic the struggle continues into different day.

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President Donald Trump posted connected Truth Social Sunday that Israel and Iran "should marque a deal, and volition marque a deal." 

"[W]e volition person PEACE, soon, betwixt Israel and Iran! Many calls and meetings present taking place," Trump wrote.