Sen. Tom Cotton says U.S., allies looking at "weeks, not days, of joint efforts" in Iran

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CBS News

February 28, 2026 / 4:03 PM EST


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.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-us-israel-attack-tom-cotton-senate/

[generalbetrayus]

1. Someone earlier today called it Operation Epstein Fury".

We should all call it that.

[Whip-poor-will]

2. Same shit

Same shit different war during VIETNAM the military madmen ,still spoiling our country, said the same shit..
We've done allot of killing in my lifetime like WE have the answer to anything and everything..

[pat_k]

3. Correction: "by the U.S. and its ally in Iran"

There is no "coalition of the willing" on this one.

This is the trump-netanyahu show,

So. it should be:

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 ally in Iran after the massive military mission launched overnight.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. They might be "willing" if 45 removes ALL tariffs off their products!

[OGBuzz]

13. Two unpopular leaders in dire need of war in order to...

stay in power and out of prison. I'm having serious doubts about the midterms.

[LiberalArkie]

5. Allies? Israel and and Trump..Not a very big coalition force.

[johnnyfins]

6. Was Tom Cottonhead

Smiling and salivating when he said it?

[Wiz Imp]

7. What allies?

Semes to me there is one and only one ally in Israel.

[Historic NY]

8. Hey Cotton which Allies?

Trump went in with Israel....ALONE. Now Iran is popping missiles out all over the place. Just MSB said Saudi would defend itself doesn't mean its so. Operation Epic fury is going to end up as Operation Epic Fuckup.

[JustAnotherGen]

9. What allies?

Also - we'll be there a decade

[tanyev]

10. Like Russia thought its seizure of Ukraine would only take a few days?

😒

[debsy]

11. Decades, not weeks, you ignorant fool!

We’ve been here before, at great expense to common citizens - from those in the foreign countries being attacked by our government who pay with their physical lives to our own citizens who fund these excursions and who provide the cannon fodder to “fight for liberty”. In fact, the only people who benefit from war are the wealthy majority stock holders in the military industrial complex, a real thing that we have been warned about repeatedly.

[Scalded Nun]

12. Another treasonous piece of shit heard from

[Zorro]

15. Here's a Tom Cotton refresher

In a new low for bipartisan consensus on U.S. foreign policy, 47 Republican senators have issued an “open letter” addressed to the Iranian leadership that is intended to sabotage prospects for a comprehensive nuclear deal with Iran by cultivating doubt about the credibility and reliability of the American president. Although the letter has drawn wide reproach as a partisan tactic and a dangerous precedent, it might just accomplish what it was intended to do — reinforce the paranoia of the Iranian regime and scuttle long-awaited progress toward a negotiated resolution of the Iranian nuclear impasse.

The letter asserts the primacy of Congress — and, by extension, the Republicans — in determining the longevity of any nuclear agreement between Iran, the United States, and the five other world powers involved in the negotiations. “Anything not approved by Congress is a mere executive agreement,” the letter stresses, adding that “(t)he next president could invoke such an executive agreement with the stroke of a pen and future Congresses could modify the terms of an agreement at any time.” Just in case the message wasn’t clear, the letter emphasized that Obama would be out of office in a matter of months while “many of us [the 47 signatories] will remain in office well beyond then — perhaps decades.”

The letter was organized by freshman senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), a rising GOP star who only weeks ago sneered that Obama’s own letters to Iranian leaders reminded him of “a lovestruck teenager.”

The release of the letter provoked sharp criticism from the administration and well beyond. Obama accused the Republicans of aligning themselves with Iranian hard-liners against diplomacy and in favor of war; Vice President Joe Biden described the letter as “beneath the dignity of an institution I revere” and “highly misleading signal to friend and foe alike that that our Commander-in-Chief cannot deliver on America’s commitments-a message that is as false as it is dangerous.”

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/letters-to-the-ayatollah-the-sequel-the-republican-letter-to-irans-leaders-reflects-strategy-as-well-as-spite/

[PatSeg]

14. "Operation Epic Fury"???

Seriously? Who comes up with these names?

[Baitball Blogger]

16. Allies?

Aside from Russia and Israel, does Trump have any?

And Russia is questionable since Trump is attacking Iran.