WASHINGTON, April 7 -- Sen. Elissa Slotkin issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, released the following statement in response to President Trump's message threatening U.S. military escalation in Iran.
"The President of the United States is taking his threats against the Iranian people to new extremes. Targeting civilians en masse would be a clear violation of the law of armed conflict as laid out in the Geneva Conventions, as well as the Pentagon's Law of War Manual.
"This kind of focus on civilians is exactly what we accuse our adversaries of doing and what our military trains to avoid. It's built into the rigorous drilling and routines that our military ...