As protests rage in Iran and Ayatollah Khamenei pushes the region to the brink, Donald Trump’s inner circle has fractured in full view. Vice President JD Vance – long cast as a skeptic of foreign wars – reportedly urged Trump to bomb Iran, arguing he had drawn a red line by warning Tehran not to kill protesters and now “had to enforce it.” Yet Arab allies from Riyadh to Doha, and even Benjamin Netanyahu, pleaded for restraint.