Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., accused fellow Democrats of putting party over country in their opposition to President Donald Trump’s strikes against the Iranian regime during an interview Saturday on Fox News. 

He broke with members of his own party Wednesday as he defended the operation as necessary to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

"I don't know why we can't just be honest," Fetterman told "Saturday in America." 

"The last two professional candidates for the Democratic Party all agreed that we can never allow Iran to acquire nuclear bombs, and that's made that possible now. I think we can say, 'Hey, that's a great thing. That makes the world more safe, more secure and holds Iran accountable.'"

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Fetterman's criticism comes after 53 House Democrats voted against a resolution declaring Iran a state sponsor of terror. He argued his colleagues' stance reflects a concerning shift within the party.

"That's almost 25% of Democrats in the House that can't just call Iran the world's biggest terrorism underwriter," Fetterman said. 

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Fetterman was the lone Senate Democrat to vote against a resolution seeking to limit Trump’s war powers on Wednesday, arguing that longstanding bipartisan beliefs have always opposed Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

"That's where our party's been heading now… I can't imagine why you wouldn't just identify that's what Iran is," he added.

"Virtually every Democrat that I'm aware of says we can never allow Iran to acquire a nuclear bomb, and they were a significant risk to America," Fetterman said. 

"I know why they [Democrats] don't say that now, because I'm aware that it is very damaging as a Democrat to just happen to agree with the president on anything, but for me, that's easy — country over party." 

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Persian mistranslated part of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's Monday speech on Iran, making it appear that the United States was targeting the Iranian "people" rather than the Iranian "regime."

During BBC Persian's broadcast of the war secretary's speech to audiences inside Iran, the network mistranslated the word "regime" as "mardom," which means "people" in Persian.

This mix-up led audiences to believe that the Iranian people were being targeted by the U.S., when in reality, Hegseth had said the Iranian regime was being targeted by American forces.

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"It turns out the regime that chanted ‘death to America and death to Israel’ was gifted death from America and death from Israel.  This is not a so-called regime-change war, but the regime sure did change and the world is better off for it," Hegseth said.

When translated to Persian by the network, the war secretary's speech stated: "It turns out the people that chanted ‘death to America and death to Israel’ was gifted death from America and death from Israel.

The BBC has since issued a correction.

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"This mistranslated word was a mistake, as a result of human error, during the live simultaneous translation of a speech. We issued a correction to Persian audiences on air and on social media," the network's statement read.

As reported by The Telegraph, Iran expert and Persian linguist Thamar Eilam-Gindin argued that the BBC had "fundamentally altered the meaning" of Hegseth's speech.

"By mistranslating the English word ‘regime’ into the Persian word ‘mardom’ —meaning ‘people’—the BBC’s Persian service fundamentally altered the meaning of the US secretary of defence’s speech,  making it appear as though he were attacking all Iranians rather than the Islamic Republic," he explained.

"Among members of the Iranian diaspora in the West, with whom I am in regular contact, this incident reinforces what they perceive as a long-standing pro-regime editorial line at BBC Persian."

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When reached for comment about the error, the BBC pointed Fox News Digital to its original statement. 

The BBC Persian X account also posted a correction: The English text for the post with video stated, "Correction and Explanation Regarding the Simultaneous Translation of the US Secretary of Defense's Remarks." 

The network's translation error comes amid a $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC from President Donald Trump.

The BBC has come under intense scrutiny over a 2024 Panorama documentary about Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021, speech delivered before the riot at the U.S. Capitol. Critics called the documentary misleading because it omitted Trump's call for supporters to protest peacefully. Trump sued the BBC in December for both defamation and for a violation of Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act for $5 billion apiece, seeking $10 billion total.

While ABC and CBS have both settled lawsuits with Trump in the past year, the BBC has vowed to fight the case. The two sides agreed on John W. Thornton, Esq., to serve as a pretrial mediator, who will seek a resolution. 

"The BBC defamed President Trump by intentionally and deceitfully editing its documentary in order to try and interfere in the Presidential election. President Trump will continue to hold accountable those who traffic in lies, deception, and fake news," a spokesperson for Trump’s legal team told Fox News Digital. 

The BBC did not respond to an earlier request for comment about the lawsuit.

Fox News Digital's Brian Flood contributed to this report.