Tom Cotton

Republican chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Tom Cotton, celebrated the operation on CNN and called it necessary to deter Iran from long-range missile development.

It's much easier...

to kill the archer on the ground than it is to shoot his arrow out of the sky.

Cotton said the stage is set for regime change.

But ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mark Warner, a Democrat, called the operation a, quote, war of choice.

He said he's seen no intelligence that Iran posed a direct threat to the U.S.

before the attack.

Warner told CNN regime change is unlikely.

Both Warner and Cotton expect continued fighting in the coming days.

Luke Garrett, NPR News, Washington.

Republican chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Tom Cotton, celebrated the operation on CNN and called it necessary to deter Iran from long-range missile development.

to kill the archer on the ground than it is to shoot his arrow out of the sky.

Cotton said the stage is set for regime change.

But ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mark Warner, a Democrat, called the operation a, quote, war of choice.

He said he's seen no intelligence that Iran posed a direct threat to the U.S.

before the attack.

Warner told CNN regime change is unlikely.

Both Warner and Cotton expect continued fighting in the coming days.

Luke Garrett, NPR News, Washington.

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