My first thought is "Why would President Lightbringer consider a EMP attack against us a bad thing?

They attack, he surrenders, and there would be Peace!
In his warped view, anyway.
Why would President Lightbringer consider this a bad thing?  They attack, he surrenders, and there would be Peace(in his warped view)!
Suspected for years of plotting to dismantle the U.S. electric grid, American officials have confirmed that Iranian military brass have endorsed a nuclear electromagnetic pulse explosion that would attack the country's power system.

American defense experts made the discovery while translating a secret Iranian military handbook, raising new concerns about Tehran's recent nuclear talks with the administration.
All the people who'd die?  Just more fodder to defend his surrender: "We cannot expend effort in fighting Iran over this when we have so many bodies to bury!"