艾奥瓦州律师助理克里斯蒂娜·布伦登是特朗普总统的坚定支持者。一年前她去给汽车加油时，花费约40美元。
When Christine Brenden, an Iowa paralegal who staunchly supports President Donald Trump, went to fill her gas tank a year ago, it cost around $40.
她说，现在这个数字已经涨到了60美元。周四，在苏城一个机场排队等候听特朗普演讲时，布伦登预测，如果特朗普如其所暗示的那样，在11月中期选举后恢复与伊朗的战争，油价只会进一步上涨。“我敢打赌它会再次飙升，”她说。
Now, she said, the cost has jumped to $60. Standing in line to see Trump speak at an airport in Sioux City on Thursday, Brenden predicted fuel prices would only jump further if, as Trump has hinted, he resumes the war with Iran after November’s midterm elections. “I bet it would skyrocket again,” she said.
随着特朗普展开密集的竞选闪电战，希望凝聚基层对共和党候选人的热情，他经常暗示战争的彻底结束近在眼前。
As Trump embarks on a frenetic campaign blitz, hoping to rally base enthusiasm behind Republican candidates, he routinely teases that a decisive end to the war is just around the corner.
但在艾奥瓦州——共和党正试图保住一个参议院席位和几个美国众议院席位——对于新一轮密集轰炸的前景，CNN采访的共和党人大多持，无论是参加特朗普活动的人，还是决定不去参加的人。
But in Iowa — where the GOP is trying to defend a Senate seat and several US House seats — the prospect of a new, intensive round of bombing received mostly negative reviews among the Republicans CNN spoke with, both those attending Trump’s event and those who decided to skip it.
“他开了个头，我不知道他要怎么收场。我觉得现在是时候让以色列、沙特阿拉伯以及其他一些国家要么加入进来，要么退出了，”退休律师斯科特·莱因哈特在苏城邮局外说。他说自己是忠实的共和党人，但没有参加特朗普的集会。
“He started something, I don’t know how he’s going to finish it. I think it’s time for Israel, Saudi Arabia, some of the other countries to either jump in or jump out,” said Scott Rhinehart, a retired lawyer, outside the Sioux City post office. He said he was a loyal Republican, but wasn’t attending Trump’s rally.
从某些方面来看，艾奥瓦州是受伊朗战争后果冲击最严重的州之一。高企的汽油和柴油价格伤害了该州的农民，使他们运输产品的成本更高，还有两名来自该州的军人在这场冲突中丧生。
By some measures, Iowa has been among the states hardest hit by the consequences of the Iran war. High gas and diesel prices have hurt the state’s farmers, making it more expensive to transport their products, and two service members who were from the state have died in the conflict.
共和党参议院候选人、众议员阿什莉·辛森——她将于周四晚与特朗普同台亮相——在争取该州议席的过程中，努力保持微妙平衡，特朗普两年前在此州以两位数优势获胜。她投票反对一项众议院决议，该决议获得两名处境艰难的爱荷华州共和党议员支持，旨在限制特朗普继续打这场战争的权力。但辛森一直直言不讳地称这场战争代价过高，并敦促特朗普将其以“成功且立即结束”的方式收场。
The GOP Senate nominee, Rep. Ashley Hinson — who is set to appear with Trump Thursday night — has struck a delicate balance as she fights for a seat in a state Trump won by double digits two years ago. She voted against a House resolution, which two vulnerable Iowa GOP lawmakers backed, that would limit Trump’s powers to continue fighting the war. But Hinson’s been outspoken in calling the war too expensive and calling on Trump to bring it to a “successful and immediate end.”
特朗普表示，他无意在选举日前恢复对伊朗的打击，考虑到这场战争在国内深受不欢迎，包括在他许多支持者中间。
The president has said he doesn’t intend to resume strikes against Iran before Election Day, mindful the war has proven deeply unpopular at home, including among many of his own supporters.
“从某种意义上说，他们喜欢，因为我做的是其他总统本该做的事；从另一种意义上说，也许他们不喜欢。这——是有代价的，我做的时候立刻就知道了，但我们不能让伊朗拥有核武器，”特朗普周四在离开白宫前往爱荷华州时说道。
“Well in one way, they love it because I’m doing what should have been done by other presidents, and another way maybe they don’t. It’s — there’s a price to pay, which I knew immediately when I did it, but we can’t let Iran have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said Thursday while departing the White House for Iowa.
“其他总统早就该这么做了。伊朗战争——我们已经狠狠打击了他们，我们可能还会再打进一步，”他补充道。
“This should have been done a long time ago by other presidents. The Iran war — and we’ve knocked the hell out of them, and we may do it a little bit further,” he added.
幕后，顾问们已拟定计划，与以色列协调发动新一轮打击，一旦特朗普批准，即可立即执行。
Behind the scenes, advisers have drawn up plans for renewed strikes in coordination with Israel that could be executed as soon as Trump gives the go-ahead.
据美国官员称，目标包括核设施、能源设施以及伊朗剩余的导弹和无人机武库，官员们描述，冲突可能重启将是短暂但激烈的。
Targets include nuclear sites, energy facilities and Iran’s remaining missile and drone arsenal, according to US officials, who described a potential renewal of the conflict as short but intense.
官员们称，正在积极考虑的一个选项是：使用所谓的“所有炸弹之母”，即美国武库中最大的非核武器，打击伊朗的能源基础设施和核设施。
One option under active consideration, according to officials: using the so-called “mother of all bombs,” the largest non-nuclear ordnance in the US arsenal, to target Iranian energy infrastructure and nuclear sites.
特朗普是否会批准新一轮打击尚无保证，此前当他似乎即将下令新一轮猛攻时，曾退缩不前。但本月他在全国各地奔波造势，强烈暗示集会听众应预期在短期内采取果断行动。
There is no guarantee Trump will approve new strikes, and he has previously backed off when he seemed close to ordering a new onslaught. But crisscrossing the country this month, he has strongly suggested to rally audiences they should expect decisive action in the near term.
在距离中期选举不足两周之际，进一步军事行动的暗示在这一以农业为主的州并不受欢迎。
The hint of further action wasn’t sitting well in this heavily agricultural state, with less than two weeks to go until the midterms.
22岁的农业专业学生佩顿·韦伯斯特与朋友一同参加集会，她说，考虑到对农民造成的冲击，她不会欢迎再一轮轰炸。她表示，农业政策是她作为选民的头号关切议题。
Peyton Webster, a 22-year-old agriculture student attending the rally with a friend, said she wouldn’t welcome another round of bombing because of the toll it would take on farmers. She said farm policy was her number one issue as a voter.
“这很可能只会让（汽油价格）维持在较高水平，而当下日子本来就紧巴巴的，这对小家庭尤其困难，所以那无济于事，”她说。“我希望我们把精力放在本国、改善国民生活上，然后再去参与外交事务。” 这场战争在这里造成的代价不仅仅是经济上的。爱荷华州两名士兵——来自印第安诺拉的杰弗里·奥布莱恩少校和来自西得梅因的德克兰·科迪中士——在冲突伊始，因伊朗无人机袭击科威特一处战术作战中心而阵亡。两人均隶属于驻扎在得梅因的第103后勤支援司令部。
“It would probably just keep (gas prices) up higher, and that’s especially just hard on smaller family units when it’s tight as it is, so that wouldn’t help,” she said. “I like us putting our efforts toward our country and improving the lives of our citizens, and then going and involving in foreign affairs.”The costs of the war here have been more than just economic. Two soldiers from Iowa — Maj. Jeffrey O’Brien, from Indianola, and Sgt. Declan Coady, from West Des Moines — were killed at the start of the conflict when an Iranian drone struck a tactical operations center in Kuwait. Both were assigned to the 103rd Sustainment Command, based in Des Moines.
反映出战争给特朗普党内许多人带来的压力，爱荷华州两名共和党联邦众议员扎克·纳恩和玛丽安内特·米勒-米克斯上月在众院投赞成票，支持战争权力决议。
Reflecting the pressure many in Trump’s party face because of the war, two Iowa Republicans, Reps. Zach Nunn and Mariannette Miller-Meeks, voted last month for the war powers resolution in the House.
欣森——她上月在椭圆形办公室曾承诺，如果特朗普来爱荷华造势，就给他带一块猪排——即使试图与总统保持一定距离，语气也相对审慎。
Hinson — who promised in the Oval Office last month to bring a pork chop to Trump if he campaigned in Iowa — has taken a more measured tone even as she’s sought some distance from the president.
“在我看来，成功的结局意味着我们必须获得保证，伊朗永远不会拥有核计划，”欣森周二在与民主党州众议员乔什·图雷克的辩论中表示，两人正陷入势均力敌的激烈角逐。
“Successful end, to me, means we have to have assurances that there will never be a nuclear program in Iran,” Hinson said during a debate on Tuesday with Democratic state Rep. Josh Turek, with whom she’s locked in a neck-and-neck race.
“我信任美军能够实现这一目标，无论那是什么样子。我与我们的将军们会面过，进行过那些对话，但我也与家属们会过面，”她接着说，“我不想看到那种事发生在另一个家庭身上，也没有人想要一场永无止境的战争。”然而，在辛森和总统准备发表讲话的飞机库外，即使是热心的特朗普支持者听起来也对重启战争是否值得持有些许怀疑态度。
“I trust the US military to achieve that objective, whatever that looks like. I’ve met with our generals, had those conversations, but I’ve also met with the families.”“I don’t want to see that happen to another family,” she went on, “and nobody wants a forever war.”Outside the airplane hangar where Hinson and the president were set to speak, however, even ardent Trump supporters sounded somewhat skeptical that renewing the war would be worthwhile.
“感觉这场战争持续的时间比我预期的要长，”41岁的牧师布兰登·约根森说。“我们刚介入时，我感觉措辞非常像是，这会很快结束。就像我们会进去，展示大量武力，然后迅速结束。但我看到的并非真是这样。”企业主莱斯·克莱文加则不那么怀疑。
“It feels like it’s run longer than I kind of expected it to,” said Brandon Jorgensen, a 41-year-old pastor. “When we first got in, I felt like the language was very much, so like this is going to be quick. Like we’re going to come in, show a lot of force, and come through a quick end. And that hasn’t been really what I’ve seen.”Les Cleveringa, a business owner, was less dubious.
“成本更高了，但核战争要昂贵得多，”他说。“我不确定这会不会影响物价，但我认为这可能会终结战争。”
“Costs are higher, but a nuclear war is a lot more expensive,” he said. “I’m not sure it’ll affect prices, but I think it might bring an end to the war.”