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哈梅内伊次子料接任伊朗最高领袖 以色列警告接班人必诛 | 联合早报

发布/2026年3月4日 18:28

哈梅内伊次子料接任伊朗最高领袖 以色列警告接班人必诛

伊朗已故最高领袖哈梅内伊的次子穆杰塔巴曾于两伊战争期间，服役于革命卫队，与军方及情报体系高层建立紧密联系。图为2019年5月31日，穆杰塔巴（中）在德黑兰参与纪念“耶路撒冷日”的示威。 （路透社档案照片）

（纽约综合电）伊朗最高领袖哈梅内伊在美以空袭行动中被击毙后，据报他的次子穆杰塔巴是热门继任人选。以色列警告，哈梅内伊的任何接班人都将成为暗杀目标。

《纽约时报》星期二（3月3日）引述三名伊朗官员报道，负责推举伊朗下一任最高领袖的专家会议当天召开，哈梅内伊的次子穆杰塔巴（Mojtaba Khamenei）是最明显的接班人选，最早可能在星期三（4日）上午接任。

不过，伊朗法尔斯通讯社星期二深夜引述知情人士报道，伊朗最高领袖选举可能推迟到下周举行。伊朗内部担心穆杰塔巴或成为美国和以色列的暗杀目标。

以色列防长卡茨星期三在社媒发文警告：“任何被伊朗恐怖政权选中，继续领导摧毁以色列、威胁美国、自由世界和地区国家，并镇压伊朗人民的领导人，无论姓名或藏身处，都将成为暗杀目标。”

星期二较早时，以军宣称袭击了专家会议举行的地点，不过伊朗消息称，有关建筑被袭击时，里面的人已疏散，穆杰塔巴目前安然无恙。

伊朗专家会议由公开选举选出的88名什叶派神职人员组成，负责任命、监督和罢免最高领袖。

知情人士透露，伊朗已采取最高级别安全措施，确保专家会议顺利推举最高领袖。推举程序可能在哈梅内伊葬礼后以现场投票方式举行。

消息称，哈梅内伊的遗体将安葬在什叶派圣城马什哈德（Mashhad），葬礼日期尚未公布。

分析：穆杰塔巴开明 若继任意味蜕变

约翰斯·霍普金斯大学伊朗问题专家纳斯尔认为，推举穆杰塔巴出任伊朗下一任最高领袖是令人意外的选择，折射出伊朗国内政局现状。纳斯尔说：“他早被认定为接班人，但过去两年里，他似乎淡出人们的视线。如果他当选，那就表明现在掌权的是革命卫队中更为强硬的派系。”

现年56岁的穆杰塔巴颇具影响力但行事低调，与伊朗革命卫队关系密切。据三名伊朗官员透露，革命卫队力推他上任，认为他具备在当前危机时期领导伊朗的资格。

伊朗分析员拉赫马蒂则预计，伊朗国内并非所有人都会赞同。一些反政府人士可能会视他为哈梅内伊政权的延续。在近期伊朗爆发的反政府抗议活动期间，据报有成千上万人遭杀害。

不过也有分析师认为，穆杰塔巴能给伊朗带来改变。与穆杰塔巴关系密切的伊朗政界人士阿卜杜勒礼萨曾公开指出，如果穆杰塔巴真的接任最高领袖，他可能会像沙特阿拉伯王储穆罕默德那样，成为力促改革的领导人。

阿卜杜勒礼萨在美以袭击伊朗前接受纽时访问时说：“他（穆杰塔巴）非常开明，且致力于让强硬派边缘化。请将他继任视为一种蜕变。”

星期二较早时，美国总统特朗普在白宫记者会上说，自上周六（2月28日）以来，许多被美国政府视为可能接班成为伊朗新领导人的官员已被杀害。“很快，我们就谁也不认识了。”

特朗普强调，不希望伊朗出现跟前任“一样糟糕”的新领导人。

伊朗女校遇袭上百人死 大批民众出席葬礼悼念 | 联合早报

发布时间: 2026-03-04T10:35:19.000Z | 来源: 联合早报

伊朗米纳布一所女子学校遇袭，导致上百人死亡，大批民众到学校出席他们的葬礼，悼念逝者。

法新社报道，位于伊朗南部米纳布的沙贾雷·塔伊贝女子学校（Shajareh Tayyebeh）上星期六（2月28日）遭到袭击，当天也是美国和以色列对伊朗发动袭击的第一天。

伊朗星期二（3月3日）说，美以发动的袭击造成787人死亡，其中包括遇难的165名女学生。联合国专家也对中东地区暴力冲突升级导致儿童死亡深感不安。

不过，美国国务卿鲁比奥星期一（2日）否认美军蓄意袭击伊朗女校。

伊朗女校遇袭上百人死 大批民众出席葬礼悼念 | 联合早报

发布时间：2026年3月4日 18:35

伊朗米纳布一所女子学校遇袭，导致上百人死亡，大批民众到学校出席他们的葬礼，悼念逝者。

法新社报道，位于伊朗南部米纳布的沙贾雷·塔伊贝女子学校（Shajareh Tayyebeh）上星期六（2月28日）遭到袭击，当天也是美国和以色列对伊朗发动袭击的第一天。

伊朗星期二（3月3日）说，美以发动的袭击造成787人死亡，其中包括遇难的165名女学生。联合国专家也对中东地区暴力冲突升级导致儿童死亡深感不安。

不过，美国国务卿鲁比奥星期一（2日）否认美军蓄意袭击伊朗女校。

Kristi Noem faces House Democrats in second hearing on ICE operations | Fox News

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Homeland Security Secretary faces vocal critics including Jamie Raskin and Jasmine Crockett in House Judiciary hearing Wednesday

By Charles CreitzFox News

Published March 4, 2026 6:00am EST

DHS reviewing some Biden-era border crossers to identify potential homeland threats

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Tuesday said the department is reviewing interviews with some individuals who crossed the border under former President Joe Biden to identify potential threats following the conflict with Iran.

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem heads into a second straight day of high-stakes Capitol Hill combat Wednesday, this time facing House Democrats eager to press her on ICE arrests, warrantless operations and the Trump administration’s mass deportation push — all as a partial shutdown clouds her agency.

After sparring with Senate Democrats over DACA arrests and Election Day enforcement, Noem now enters a House Judiciary hearing stacked with vocal critics, from Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md. to Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas., setting up another marathon session over immigration enforcement and executive power.

Noem caught heat from both sides during a Senate hearing Tuesday, when most Republicans praised her work correcting what they view as former President Joe Biden’s failed border policies. But Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and the entirety of the Democratic side of the dais emphatically confronted her during their questioning time.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is sworn in before testifying during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 2, 2026. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)(Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

In Wednesday’s hearing, Noem is expected to go up against House Judiciary Committee ranking member Raskin early, as the Maryland Democrat has previously pressed for more oversight of Noem and DHS, including rescission of policies allowing warrantless operations.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., who is likely the committee’s top progressive, has previously called for stricter oversight of DHS and has criticized Noem’s management of ICE as it carries out immigration enforcement operations in cities including Minneapolis and New Orleans.

Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., will also have a turn to question Noem. Her district in Delaware County was once a reliable Republican stronghold that elected a former Pennsylvania House speaker and leaned toward Trump in 2016. But it has since shifted and sided consistently with Democrats in recent elections.

Scanlon’s district has also featured numerous anti-ICE protests in visible areas such as the major intersection of Baltimore Pike and PA-320 last year, where throngs amassed to wave signs in the county’s commercial hub.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, who is fighting a tough Senate primary Tuesday night, will question Noem near the end of Wednesday’s session.

Noem will also take questions from Rep. Henry “Hank” Johnson, D-Ga., and Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vt., both of whom clashed with Attorney General Pam Bondi just days ago.

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Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., and Rep. Jesus Garcia, D-Ill., have both been critical of ICE’s activities, as Garcia previously slammed Noem for her agency’s conduct during enforcement operations in his heavily Hispanic district in Chicago.

Noem is expected to have a less confrontational time answering questions from Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and his caucus, which includes border-state Reps. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., Kevin Kiley, Tom McClintock and Darrell Issa, R-Calif.

The wild card in committee hearings is typically Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who has been criticized by the “MAGA” right for being insufficiently supportive of some of the administration’s policies.

Other members of note on the 44-member panel include Rep. Ben Cline, R-Va., Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., Rep. Brad Knott, R-N.C., and Rep. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Wis.

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On Tuesday, Noem clashed with ranking member Richard Durbin, D-Ill., over arrests of DACA recipients and questioned why Sens. Chris Coons, D-Del., and Alex Padilla, D-Calif., were concerned about ICE being dispatched near polling places on Election Day.

Noem appeared to ask both men whether their concern had anything to do with the idea of illegal immigrants voting in federal elections, which is illegal.

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伊媒：已确定几名候选人 将选出最高领导人

发布时间：2026年3月4日 18:43 / 来源：联合早报

伊朗最高领导人哈梅内伊上周六（2月28日）在美国与以色列的联合袭击中身亡。 （法新社档案照片）

伊朗媒体说，伊朗已确定几名候选人，即将从中选出最高领导人。

伊朗媒体引述伊朗专家会议成员哈塔米报道说，伊朗将“第一时间”选出最高领导人，但他未透露更多细节。

另据法新社报道，哈塔米说：“我们都在努力……尽快任命新的最高领导人。我们已经接近目标，但目前局势如同战争时期。”

伊朗专家会议是负责选举、监督、罢黜伊朗最高领导人的最高权力机构。

《纽约时报》引述伊朗官员说，高级神职人员考虑最早于星期三（3月4日）宣布由已故哈梅内伊次子穆杰塔巴（Mojtaba Khamenei）接替父亲成为伊朗最高领导人。

伊媒：已确定几名候选人 将选出最高领导人

2026年3月4日 18:43 / 联合早报

伊朗最高领导人哈梅内伊上周六（2月28日）在美国与以色列的联合袭击中身亡。 （法新社档案照片）

伊朗媒体说，伊朗已确定几名候选人，即将从中选出最高领导人。

伊朗媒体引述伊朗专家会议成员哈塔米报道说，伊朗将“第一时间”选出最高领导人，但他未透露更多细节。

另据法新社报道，哈塔米说：“我们都在努力……尽快任命新的最高领导人。我们已经接近目标，但目前局势如同战争时期。”

伊朗专家会议是负责选举、监督、罢黜伊朗最高领导人的最高权力机构。

《纽约时报》引述伊朗官员说，高级神职人员考虑最早于星期三（3月4日）宣布由已故哈梅内伊次子穆杰塔巴（Mojtaba Khamenei）接替父亲成为伊朗最高领导人。

Senate to vote on Trump’s war powers after Iran attacks

March 4, 2026 / 6:00 AM EST / CBS News

Washington — The Senate will hold a vote Wednesday on whether to block President Trump from using further military force against Iran, amid shifting messaging from the administration about the strikes and warnings about more American casualties to come.

It’s the second time in less than a year that Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia has forced a vote on a war powers resolution related to Iran. The upper chamber voted down a similar effort in June, after the U.S. bombed three locations central to Iran’s nuclear program.

Kaine’s resolution, which is cosponsored by Republican Rep. Rand Paul of Kentucky, would “direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against the Islamic Republic of Iran that have not been authorized by Congress.”

Though the war powers vote was expected ahead of the strikes on Iran over the weekend, the massive military operation that began Saturday upped the stakes of the vote — and added to the urgency.

“They have shifting goals, different goals all the time, different answers every day. And I am truly worried about mission creep,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, said Tuesday.

With a 53-seat Republican majority, the resolution appears poised to fall short of the simple majority needed to advance the measure. Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania has pledged to vote against the resolution, meaning it would need the support of at least four other Republicans in addition to Paul.

In June, the Iran war powers resolution received support from most Democrats and Paul, while Fetterman voted with most Republicans against it.

Even if both chambers were to approve the resolution, the outcome would be largely symbolic, since the president could simply veto the resolution. Democrats would require two-thirds majorities in both the House and Senate to override his veto.

In a call with reporters Sunday, Kaine acknowledged that the renewed effort is unlikely to go anywhere, but said it’s important that members of Congress be put on the record about the war with Iran.

“If you don’t have the guts to vote yes or no on a war vote, how dare you send our sons and daughters into war where they risk their lives,” Kaine said.

Mr. Trump said Monday the operation in Iran was projected to last four to five weeks, but the U.S. has the “capability to go far longer than that.” But Mr. Trump also said the operation was “substantially ahead of our time projections.” He also has not ruled out putting boots on the ground.

Democrats walked away from a classified briefing with Trump administration officials on Tuesday unsatisfied with what they heard.

“They told us in there that this is an open-ended operation that hasn’t even really started in earnest yet,” said Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut. “There will be more Americans killed. They refuse to take off the table, the insertion of ground troops.”

“There clearly was no imminent threat,” added Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey.

A CBS News poll found that most Americans disapprove of the war with Iran, and think the Trump administration has not clearly explained its goals. About half of Americans believe the war could last months or years.

Asked Monday about whether the military operation needs congressional authorization, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, said the Trump’s administration’s actions are “consistent with what previous administrations have done” in prior conflicts. Thune added at a news conference Tuesday that “the president was perfectly within his rights to take the steps that he took.”

The Constitution grants Congress the authority to declare war. In response to the Vietnam War, Congress passed the 1973 War Powers Resolution as a check on the president’s power to enter armed conflict without consent from the legislative branch. The law requires the president to consult with Congress in “every possible instance” ahead of the introduction of any military forces and to report to Congress within 48 hours of deploying forces if Congress hasn’t authorized a declaration of war, and caps any unauthorized engagement at 60 days.

“No presidential administration has ever accepted the War Powers Act as constitutional — not Republican presidents, not Democratic presidents,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters Monday. “All that said, we complied with the law 100%, and we’re going to continue to comply with it.”

In a notification to Congress on Monday, Mr. Trump cited “repeated efforts to achieve a diplomatic solution to Iran’s malign behavior,” but said “the threat to the United States and its allies and partners became untenable.”

Mr. Trump added that “it is not possible at this time to know the full scope and duration of military operations that may be necessary.”

Kaine said he could continue forcing votes on the issue in the coming weeks, adding that some of his Senate colleagues who initially vote against the resolution could flip their votes as the situation with Iran develops.

He noted that several Republicans eventually helped advance a war powers resolution related to Venezuela earlier this year, shortly after the U.S. military captured former President Nicolás Maduro, over concerns about the potential for U.S. troops to be deployed there and Mr. Trump’s comments about running Venezuela. The effort, however, stalled after the Trump administration put pressure on several of the holdouts to flip their votes.

Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, who once supported limiting the president’s ability to strike Venezuela, said he believes the Trump administration is in compliance with the law on Iran and intends to vote against the war powers resolution.

“My view has always been, ground troops will require congressional authorization,” Hawley said Tuesday.

Last year’s efforts to curtail involvement in Iran also fizzled out after it was clear the U.S. involvement in the 12-day war between Iran and Israel was limited, and a ceasefire was reached.

The Senate vote comes ahead of a vote expected in the House on a similar resolution later this week.

Ibrahim Aksoy, Patrick Maguire and Grace Kazarian contributed to this report.

‘I’m not grouchy, I’m just optimizing’: Thom Tillis doesn’t want to hear he’s not doing enough to challenge Donald Trump

2026-03-04T11:30:33.676Z / CNN

To hear Thom Tillis tell it, there was a world where he might not have decided to retire from the US Senate. At least not in that exact moment.

He had been thinking for a while about retiring and had a late phone call with the president after deciding not to vote for his “big, beautiful bill” last June. The call had been tense. And as it ended, he’d texted his staff to be ready with a draft retirement announcement.

Before he made the final decision, he wanted to sleep on it.

Then, came a rapid-fire series of attacks from President Donald Trump on social media.

“I didn’t talk to my wife. I just made the call right then in the moment. That’s the way I operate,” Tillis told CNN in a recent interview in his office at the US Capitol. “That was a forecast of what came next. And I just wanted to make it very clear, nobody has ever had a positive experience flexing with me, ever. And I didn’t want to break my streak.”

In the months since, Tillis has emerged as one of the few Republicans in the Senate GOP regularly willing to criticize the White House, haranguing Trump’s staff for “not looking around corners” and not giving sound advice to the president.

When CNN caught up with Tillis in his Dirksen office, hours before he was scheduled to leave for the Munich security conference, the North Carolina Republican was relaxed, leaning back in a dark leather chair, hands clasped as he mused on the liberation and productivity that comes when looking at the calendar and realizing you have just under a year left in what is supposed to be the world’s most deliberative body.

He hasn’t slowed down his whirlwind farewell tour in the weeks since. On Wednesday during a hearing with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Tillis demanded her resignation, blasted her decision to shoot her 14-month-old dog and threatened to hold up Trump’s nominees coming through the Senate and deny his committees a quorum if she didn’t respond to his questions – some of which her agency’s own inspector general has asked.

Since announcing his retirement, Tillis has vowed to block Trump’s nominee for Federal Reserve chair unless his administration drops an investigation into current chair Jerome Powell. And he calls recent efforts like one to indict two fellow senators – Democrats Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin – “threatening the president’s legacy.”

But Tillis views himself as a very different kind of hill antagonist than those who attempted it before him. Criticisms from Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney (which the senator argued were at times “unwise and unfair”) centered on fears that Trump himself was an existential threat to American Democracy. Republican Reps. Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene, meanwhile, challenged the president from the right. Still others who speak out against the administration’s actions largely do so in private or under the veil of anonymity.

Instead, Tillis maintains he still has a working relationship with the president (they texted just days before the interview) and that his outspoken ridicule of Trump’s staff is meant to motivate, not alienate, the president. Tillis wants Trump to make personnel corrections that protect his legacy and the future of his majority in Congress.

“I told the president if I prove anything to him or nothing else over the next 18 months … I hope I prove to you I care more about your legacy than a lot of these people that are giving you bad advice,” he said.

In a world, however, where Trump requires almost-absolute allegiance to stay in his good graces, Tillis is no doubt stretching the outer limits of what it means to be a MAGA-aligned Republican in today’s GOP, forcing the question of how long a Republican senator in Washington can throw stones from inside the party’s tent.

“I’m going to maintain a great relationship with him for as long as I can. But if the relationship goes bad, it won’t be because of anything I said or did first,” Tillis said.

Tillis has been in Washington since 2015 and when he ran for reelection in 2020, he squared off against Democratic candidate Cal Cunningham in what was at the time one of the most expensive Senate races in the country. Tillis said he’d estimated the cost of another reelection would mean he’d need to raise at least $50 million. For months leading up to his decision to retire, Tillis wasn’t shy with donors (much to the chagrin of his political team) that he was going to do a lot of thinking before committing to another rigorous cycle.

“He was speaker of the state house and then went from being speaker to being a Senate candidate. It has been a heavy grind for him for a long time,” said longtime friend, North Carolinian and former Rep. Patrick McHenry. “This year he has realized he can have a lot fun before he heads out the door. … He is not trying to burn people, but he is doing a lot of singeing that is for sure.”

Tillis rejects the premise he is a different lawmaker now, noting that he got into state politics by challenging a sitting Republican assemblyman John Rhodes in the GOP primary in 2006. Tillis also points out he’s been at the center of some of the biggest deals Congress has cut over the last several years, from gun reform to a bill that gave same-sex and interracial couples protected legal status under the law – both of which required challenging standard party orthodoxy and landed him with a censure back home.

Yet, he doesn’t deny that dropping the reelection pressure has afforded him more flexibility than he has had in awhile. And no, it doesn’t just apply to hallway quips about top Trump aide Stephen Miller.

“I made the personal assessment that I could probably be more productive being unmoored by all the overhead and distraction of running and having to, you know, thread the needle on messaging,” Tillis said of his ultimate decision to hang it up after this year.

Pushed about critics who accuse him of only speaking more freely now that he’s not free from reelection pressures, Tillis has a simple retort: “It’s like no shit, Sherlock.”

He also has little patience for Democrats who argue that Republicans aren’t doing enough to call out their president publicly.

“I like these folks, but I tell them the same thing. I said, ‘You guys signed a letter when we had the courage to tell President Trump that we wouldn’t nuke the filibuster, and two f**king years later, you voted to nuke the filibuster, and you’re gonna tell me how I should behave? Come on, guys, I’m not grouchy. I’m just optimizing,’” he said.

In the last several months, Tillis hasn’t just played rhetorical hardball, he’s deployed exacting tactics to realize some of his legislative goals as well. In pursuit of getting the Lumbee Tribe federally recognized benefits, an effort that has been stuck for decades, the senator leveraged his relationships with the White House and pushed for the Lumbee Fairness Act to be included in the must-pass defense policy bill at the end of last year. When Mississippi senators, including Roger Wicker, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee governing the NDAA, opposed the move, Tillis held up Mississippi’s judicial nominees in the Senate Judiciary Committee until Wicker relented.

“Thom Tillis is a good man. Sometimes we do things that aren’t appreciated by all of our colleagues, but I really like Thom Tillis,” Wicker said. “He ruffled some feathers before he announced his retirement and he’s ruffled some since, but he’s a good man.”

In his role on the Senate Banking Committee, Tillis has threatened to block the nomination of Kevin Warsh -– or any other nominee -– to be the next fed chair until the Trump administration drops its investigation into Powell, a major play that could undermine one of Trump’s biggest goals of significantly lowering interest rates in the country.

Tillis says he can’t remember talking to the president directly about his position on Warsh but that he and Trump have talked several times since he leveled the threat.

Tillis isn’t revolutionary in his tactics, he’s deploying tools available to every single senator in a chamber designed to allow any one member – especially those in the majority – to exercise immense influence over nominations, legislation and the speed at which the chamber can conduct routine business. And yet in his final year in office, colleagues have observed Tillis is playing the game better than most in his party.

“I would say for most of the last year, most of my colleagues have swallowed their concerns about nominees, about policies and about the president’s conduct and statements,” Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat from Delaware, said. “He’s never had a problem standing up and saying this is wrong when something is wrong.”

Still, Tillis is cautious about never pointedly going after Trump.

From the aftermath of a second fatal shooting by federal agents in Minnesota to the administration’s threats to take Greenland to a failed effort to secure a federal grand jury indictment of sitting members of Congress, Tillis maintains the president is getting some “bad advice” from “these 30 and 40 somethings like Stephen Miller.”

“You honestly think they’re going to be taking care of the presidential library a few years from now? No, they’re going to be riding the next horse or the next thing to get them money, fame, power, whatever they want,” Tillis said during the interview.

Circling back to frustration over Trump’s staff again later in the interview, Tillis laid it out again.

“I don’t like sycophants. I don’t like people giving me self-affirming messages. I don’t need them. I’m comfortable with myself. But, you know, maybe the president is getting hammered every day. He needs a few of those people around him [to] kind of keep his energy up, but right now, he’s got too many around him.”

Tillis has an explanation for why he doesn’t spar with Trump directly.

“I don’t criticize him, because I expect these people to protect him. I expect them to increase his batting average. I expect them to advance policies that make it more likely that Republicans can win in tough states like North Carolina, Maine, Ohio, Alaska, and I get really angry when I see amateurish policies that are attention getting having no respect whatsoever For the downstream political consequences of people in Congress,” Tillis said.

Regardless of if Tillis’ most recent Trump administration truth tour is enough or too little to satisfy his colleagues on the other side of the aisle, there’s no doubt the North Carolina senator is unencumbered in a way he could not be a little over a year ago.

Last January, Tillis was the subject of an intense lobbying effort to get him to “yes” on Trump’s Defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth. Tillis had reservations and at one point pushed Majority Leader John Thune to delay a vote on his nomination. Thune rebuffed him, arguing that if he had direct concerns, he should take them to the White House. Tillis did. He attempted to contact and corroborate allegations of impropriety against Hegseth, which he denied.

“To his credit, I put [Hegseth] through some pretty grueling face-to-face discussions, and he maintained his composure well, which gave him a little bit more credit in my mind while I’m also trying to figure out whether or not somebody would really step forward, and they didn’t,” Tillis said of the episode.

Since his vote, Tillis has expressed frustrations with Hegseth’s management of the Pentagon, from his use of Signal to discuss plans for an attack in Yemen to telling CNN last year the defense secretary had a “mixed report card.”

But if there is part of Tillis that regrets his choice to back Hegseth or would make another decision now, you’re not going to hear about it.

The only thing that keeps him up at night? “Coffee,” Tillis quips.

As for the president’s quips about the senator, Tillis has tried to make light of it all. When Trump called him a “loser,” he said he was “thrilled” because it meant he was qualified to serve as homeland security secretary or the president’s senior adviser.

But there are limits to how much Tillis may be willing to take.

“In truth, he hasn’t really been that unkind,” he said of Trump. ”But I am very strait-laced about that, and I just don’t deal with it. I don’t deal with it with anybody.”

“I don’t care if it’s somebody that I encounter at Reagan National Airport or the president of United States. You either treat me with respect, and if you give me unwarranted angst, you’re likely to get the same in return.”

消息：伊朗执行哈梅内伊遗志 扩大冲突施压美以停手

发布/2026年3月4日 18:45

视频截图显示，位于伊朗首都德黑兰以南库姆市的伊朗专家会议办公楼星期二遭以军击毁后，引起骚动。 （路透社）

（伦敦综合电）伊朗消息人士透露，自去年6月遭美国和以色列袭击后，伊朗最高领袖哈梅内伊和他的班底就着手制定一项“详尽”计划，一旦被攻击即将战乱局面扩散到整个中东，让全球市场遭受冲击，以施压美以停手。

消息人士称：“我们别无选择，只能升级事态，引发轩然大波，让所有人都看清真相。当所有的红线被逾越，所有国际法都被公然践踏时，我们再也无法遵守游戏规则。”

据悉，尽管哈梅内伊以及至少六名伊朗高级军事和情报官员，包括国防部长和革命卫队司令在美以的大规模空袭中丧命，此计划仍在执行。

哈梅内伊身亡后，伊朗迅速任命的临时领导委员会成员之一、阿拉菲（Alireza Arafi）在一段视频讲话中称：“这场战争正按照（哈梅内伊的）精心策划展开。”

《纽约时报》周二（3月3日）也发表分析文章指出，伊朗政权的首要目标是生存下来。要做到这点，就必须推高对美国总统特朗普的战争成本，包括美军伤亡、能源价格上涨和通货膨胀，以此逼迫特朗普宣布战争“胜利”并撤军。

约翰斯霍普金斯大学伊朗问题专家纳斯尔认为，这场战争已经演变成一场意志和耐力的考验。“伊朗面临军事实力更胜一筹的对手，所以它的战略是通过扩大战场、使战争复杂化以及增加对世界经济的威胁来考验对手的意志。”

布鲁塞尔智库国际危机组织的伊朗项目主任瓦埃兹分析说：“伊朗想尽可能地扩大痛苦，哪怕代价高昂，哪怕会损害自身利益，甚至加剧与邻国的紧张关系。他们也希望借此激起足够的反对声浪，迫使特朗普知难而退。”

他补充说：“对伊朗而言，生存本身就是一种胜利，即便这是一场惨胜。”

报道指，伊朗的作战计划被称为“非对称持久战”，即接受初期损失以保留在以色列、美国和波斯湾防空力量捉襟见肘时升级战事的能力。这个战略背后的逻辑是，面对美国中期选举的压力，以及“让美国再次伟大”（MAGA）运动对特朗普政府决定对伊朗开战持有的怀疑态度，特朗普会选择在美军伤亡和通胀进一步加剧之前结束战争。