2026年2月28日 / 美国东部时间下午4:03 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
参议院情报委员会主席汤姆·科顿参议员周六表示，在昨晚发动大规模军事行动后，美国及其盟友在伊朗问题上的”联合行动可能持续数周，而非数日”。
“我们可能面临的是美国、以色列及其阿拉伯伙伴（今天清晨也遭到了袭击）数周的联合行动，”科顿在接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的加勒特采访时表示，”但最终结果将是，在对美国和文明世界发动了47年战争之后，阿亚图拉们终于要面对正义了。”
美国和以色列周六早些时候宣布对伊朗发动名为”史诗之怒行动”的重大军事打击。美国和以色列官员称，在此次行动后，伊朗最高领袖阿里·哈梅内伊阿亚图拉被推定死亡。
周六的打击是在特朗普总统数周来威胁伊朗政权达成新协议以遏制其核计划之后，此前在1月伊朗对抗议者进行暴力镇压后，特朗普也对其发出过威胁。
作为报复，以色列军方报告称伊朗发射了多轮导弹针对该国，该地区至少两个主要美军基地也遭到伊朗导弹袭击。
周六的行动是继2025年6月美国对伊朗关键核设施发动空袭之后。
科顿是”八人小组”成员之一，该小组包括主要民主党和共和党议员以及参众两院情报委员会主席，国务卿马尔科·卢比奥表示，在行动前已向该小组通报情况。科顿周六表示，当前行动不仅需要遏制伊朗的核计划，还需要”摧毁他们的恐怖支持网络”。这些目标将使其”比去年夏天打击其核计划的行动耗时更长”。
科顿称，”毫无疑问，伊朗正处于自1979年革命以来的最弱时刻之一”，但他们导弹带来的威胁”确实迫在眉睫”。
“正如我所说，他们拥有成千上万枚导弹，”科顿说，”这就是他们今天用来袭击我们、我们的阿拉伯朋友和以色列的武器。他们拥有的导弹比我们的导弹防御系统要多得多。而且这种差距每个月都在恶化。”
尽管美国未经国会授权发动军事行动，但宪法赋予国会宣战的唯一权力。在针对委内瑞拉驱逐前总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗的行动后，五名共和党人脱离该党推动一项限制特朗普权力的战争授权决议，尽管最终该决议在参议院未能通过。
共和党众议员托马斯·马西和民主党众议员罗·科哈尼表示，他们将推动就特朗普政府在伊朗进一步行动的战争授权决议进行投票。
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/sen-tom-cotton-on-what-could-come-next-after-us-israel-strikes-against-iran/
Sen. Tom Cotton says U.S., allies looking at “weeks, not days, of joint efforts” in Iran
February 28, 2026 / 4:03 PM EST / CBS News
Sen. Tom Cotton, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Saturday that he believes that there could be “weeks, not days, of joint efforts” by the U.S. and its allies in Iran after the massive military mission launched overnight.
“We’re probably looking at weeks, not days, of joint efforts by the United States, Israel and our Arab partners, who have also been attacked this morning,” Cotton told CBS News’ Major Garrett. “But the upshot of it will be, after 47 years of waging war against the United States and the civilized world, the ayatollahs are finally going to face justice.”
The U.S. and Israel announced a major military attack called “Operation Epic Fury” against Iran early Saturday. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is presumed dead after the mission, U.S. and Israeli officials said.
Saturday’s strikes came after President Trump threatened the Iranian regime for weeks to make a new deal to rein in its nuclear program, and before that, threatened it over its violent crackdown on protesters in January.
In retaliation, Israel’s military reported multiple rounds of Iranian missile launches targeting the country, and at least two major U.S. military bases in the region were also targeted by Iranian missiles.
Saturday’s action follows airstrikes on key Iranian nuclear facilities that the U.S. launched in June 2025.
Cotton is a member of the “Gang of Eight” lawmakers that include the top Democrats and Republicans and the heads of the House and Senate intelligence committees and who Secretary of State Marco Rubio said were briefed ahead of the mission. Cotton said Saturday that the current mission needs to not only curb Iran’s nuclear program but also to “dismantle their terror support network.” These objectives will cause it to “take longer than the strikes on their nuclear program last summer.”
Cotton said that there’s “no question” that Iran is “at one of its weakest points since the revolution in 1979,” but the threat from their missiles “genuinely is imminent.”
“As I said, they have thousands and thousands of missiles,” Cotton said. “That’s what they’re using to attack us, our Arab friends and Israel today. They have many more missiles than we have missile defenses. And the balance only gets worse. Every single month.”
While the U.S. has undertaken military missions without authorization from Congress, the Constitution grants Congress the sole power to declare war. After the mission in Venezuela to remove then-President Nicolas Maduro, five Republicans defected from the party to advance a war powers resolution aimed at limiting Mr. Trump’s powers, although ultimately the resolution did fail in the upper chamber.
Republicans Rep. Thomas Massie and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said they will force a vote on war powers resolution regarding further Trump administration action in Iran.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/sen-tom-cotton-on-what-could-come-next-after-us-israel-strikes-against-iran/
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