Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the intelligence makes clear Iran is responsible for damaging tankers in the Gulf of Oman, behavior Cotton argues will escalate for months if not years if the U.S. lets it slide
Tom Cotton is the most outspoken champion for bombing Iran in a Senate filled with Republican hawks. And he’s got President Donald Trump’s ear on it, too.
Cotton’s eyebrow-raising advocacy campaign comes after several months of lying low in the Senate after a stinging defeat on criminal justice reform and a series of instances in which he broke with Trump, typically a close ally. Cotton voted against the president’s immigration plan to reopen the government and opposed lifting sanctions on Russian companies.
Sen. Lindsey Graham , who is also close to Trump and a vocal foreign policy interventionist, suggested that the United States should threaten to destroy oil refineries but not act without further provocation. “We should be doing all we can to avoid confrontation with Iran. Now, if they are striking American personnel, then that’s another story. But so far, we haven’t seen that,” responded Sen. Joni Ernst , another national security hawk. “It’s premature. I don’t believe the [authorization] that we have right now covers Iran.”The Front Altair, a Norwegian-flagged oil tanker, burns June 13, 2019. The Trump administration has strongly claimed Iran was behind the attack.
These pushes have often put him at odds with his GOP colleagues. And on Iran, Cotton asserted that he’s not alone despite reservations from fellow Republicans about calling the military’s shots in the halls of the Senate.
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