特朗普总统的儿媳劳拉·特朗普周二表示，伊朗战争可能会让特朗普在中期选举中失利，但她坚称即使因此失去国会两院的控制权也是值得的。
President Trump's daughter-in-law Lara Trump on Tuesday said the Iran war could cost him the midterm elections but insisted that losing both chambers of Congress would be worth the cost.
英国记者哈里·科尔在她的YouTube节目《Harry Cole Saves the West》中与劳拉·特朗普进行了交谈；劳拉也曾担任共和党全国委员会的联合主席。
British journalist Harry Cole spoke with Lara Trump, also a former Republican National Committee co-chair, on his YouTube show "Harry Cole Saves the West."
哈里·科尔询问了她对中期选举的看法，尤其是在伊朗方面“迟迟不愿达成任何协议”的情况下。哈里·科尔指出，这场冲突“可能会毁掉特朗普的政绩”。劳拉回答说：“确实，这可能会让他在中期选举中落败。
He asked about her outlook on the midterms while the Iranians are "dragging their feet on doing any form of deal." Cole said the conflict "could cost [Trump] his legacy." "Well, it could cost him these midterms," she replied.
不过我认为唐纳德·特朗普的政绩尚未真正定型；在很多方面，我仍然认为他会成为美国历史上最伟大的总统之一。”
"I think Donald Trump's legacy has yet to be written and I think that, in a lot of ways, maybe –– I still say he's going to go down in history as one of the greatest presidents –– if not, the greatest America has ever seen."
她还表示，特朗普“非常不满伊朗目前的谈判态度”，并希望事情能够更快地得到解决。
She later said the president "really hates the way that things have gone with Iran" and wished that "things had more swiftly happened."
劳拉继续说道：“没错，伊朗方面确实一直在拖延，直到中期选举结束。
"But you're right, the Iranians are absolutely holding out until these midterm elections," Lara Trump continued.
他们想尽一切办法破坏特朗普在中期选举中的胜算，因为他们认为这会给他们带来优势。”
"They want to do everything they can to damage this president's hopes of these midterms going his way because they think it's going to give them an advantage."
这些言论与伊朗总统马苏德·佩泽什基安上周在联合国大会上的表态相矛盾。
These comments are at odds with what Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told reporters at the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly last week.
佩泽什基安回应特朗普称伊朗政府会等到美国选民投票后才解决冲突的说法时说：“我们不希望事情发展到中期选举的地步。”
“We don’t want it to get to the midterm elections,” Pezeshkian said, responding to President Trump's earlier claim that the regime is waiting until after Americans hit the polls to settle the conflict.
哈里·科尔随后进一步追问了美国政府发动这场战争的理由，以及是否值得因此让民主党在11月的选举中控制国会两院。
Cole later pressed Lara Trump on the administration's case for the war and whether it would be worth losing both chambers in November to the Democrats. "Yeah," she answered.
劳拉回答说：“是的，我认为特朗普明白：一旦伊朗拥有核武器，无论谁掌控众议院或参议院的多数席位，都无关紧要了。”
"Look, I think he just understands that when Iran gets a nuclear weapon, it doesn't matter who is in charge of the House. It doesn't matter the majority in the Senate.
"这个世界是个真正令人恐惧的地方，你真的无法从那种境地回头。"
This world is a really frightening place and you really can't come back from that."
她为总统在中东的成就进行了辩护，尽管不得不应对伊朗的"疯子"。
She defended the president's accomplishments in the Middle East despite dealing with the "lunatics" in Iran.
科尔表示，他视这场冲突为政府未能提出"完整论证"的事件，并询问随着油价飙升，是否已做足功夫向美国人解释冲突发生的原因。
Cole said he views the conflict as one that the administration has not made a "complete case for," and asked if enough has been done to explain to Americans why the conflict is happening as gas prices soar.
拉拉·特朗普称，美国人在地理上感觉"远离"伊朗，她的公公"经常谈论这件事"。"
Lara Trump said Americans feel "far removed" from Iran geographically and that her father-in-law "talks about it a lot."
但我认为，听听其他共和党人、白宫其他人士、该领域其他人士更多地阐述究竟有什么利益攸关，以及如果伊朗真发展出核武器，我们离世界变成一个截然不同、非常可怕的地方有多近，这将是有益的，"她说。
"But I think it would be beneficial to hear from other Republicans, from other folks at the White House, from other people out there in this space, more about exactly what was on the line and how close I think we were to the world being a very different and very scary place if Iran ever actually developed a nuclear weapon," she said.
周一，美以与伊朗的冲突达到七个月，总统曾称这项军事行动将是一次"短途行动"，将在短时间内结束。
The U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran reached the seven-month mark on Monday, a military operation that the president said would be an "excursion" that would conclude on a short timeline.
共和党议员大多支持他发动打击的决定，但一些着眼于十一月选举的议员呼吁迅速结束冲突，以便让油价回落。
Republican lawmakers have largely supported his decision to launch strikes, but some with their eyes toward winning races in November have called for a quick end to the conflict to allow gas prices to moderate.
伊朗在二月最初的打击后关闭了海峡，实际上切断了全球约20%通过该海峡出口的石油。
Iran shut down the strait after the initial strikes in February, effectively cutting off roughly 20 percent of the world's oil from being exported globally through the strait.
他为高油价辩护，称这是阻止伊朗核野心"必须支付的非常廉价的代价"。
He has defended the higher prices as a "very inexpensive price to pay" to stop Iran's nuclear ambitions.