<p>Iran should pursue a peaceful resolution and end its nuclear program because the United States has a lot more targets from which to choose, Senate Intelligence Chairman Tom Cotton (R-AR) said on Sunday.</p>
<p>Cotton told ABC&#8217;s Jonathan Karl on &#8220;This Week&#8221; that the supreme leader and the Ayatollahs in Iran need to understand that President Donald Trump &#8220;means business&#8221; after ordering strikes on three of Tehran&#8217;s facilities this weekend to prevent the regime from obtaining nuclear weapons.</p>
<p>&#8220;They have a chance to sue for peace here, to dismantle whatever remnants of their nuclear program remain, and to continue to actually survive,&#8221; Cotton said. &#8220;Because we haven&#8217;t targeted the supreme leader; we haven&#8217;t targeted their energy infrastructure. We haven&#8217;t targeted other critical infrastructure. That&#8217;s an implicit message that Iran still has things that they hold dear that neither the United States nor Israel has struck.&#8221;</p>
<p>Cotton said the military strikes &#8220;severely damaged&#8221; Iran&#8217;s &#8220;critical nuclear infrastructure,&#8221; which he noted Trump had warned for 10 years he would do if Tehran got close to achieving a nuclear weapon.</p>
<p>&#8220;Remember, this is a regime in Iran that has terrorized Americans for 46 years,&#8221; Cotton said. &#8220;For 25 years, American presidents have worried about them getting a nuclear weapon, have said that they&#8217;d never be allowed to. Finally, President Trump has taken decisive action to ensure that they&#8217;re not going to get nuclear weapons on his watch.&#8221;</p>
<p>Cotton also said the United States should be &#8220;prepared&#8221; for Iran to retaliate.</p>
<p>&#8220;I join the president in his warning to the supreme leader of Iran, that if he targets Americans, the military force he will see, will make last night look like child&#8217;s play,&#8221; Cotton said. &#8220;We have troops in the region. Iran has targeted Americans around the world and Marine barracks in Beirut and barracks in Saudi Arabia. They&#8217;ve targeted embassies of countries around the world. For all we know, they may have gotten sleeper cells into the country during Joe Biden&#8217;s wide-open border.&#8221;</p>
<p>He added: &#8220;So, the threats are serious, and we take them seriously. President Trump has no higher priority, as do I, than the safety of the American people.&#8221;</p>
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