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02 Mar 2026, 14:00 GMT+10
Senator Lindsey Graham has called for more military intervention following the attack on the Islamic Republic
The US should assassinate those who come to power in Iran if they remain hostile toward American interests, according to veteran war hawk Senator Lindsey Graham.
The targetedkillingof Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other senior officials was the opening part of a US-Israeli regime change operation launched on Saturday.
In a Fox News interview on Sunday, Graham pushed for continued political assassinations abroad. "This regime is in its death throes. Finish them off!" he said. "The ultimate safety comes when people in charge of Iran don't want to kill us."
"I don't know who is going to take over Iran after this regime collapses but I know this. If you want to be a friend to America, we'll be a friend to you. If you wanna keep this crap up, then you will pay the same price [as] the ayatollah," Graham added, citing decades of Iranian support for anti-American militancy.
President Donald Trump's interventionist approach in Iran and elsewhere sets "the golden standard" for US foreign policy that even President Ronald Reagan could not achieve, Graham claimed. He urged Trump to "unleash the American military with Israel" on Lebanon's Iran-aligned Hezbollah "tonight."
Cuba should also be targeted, Graham said, claiming Havana's "days are numbered." The US should also pressure Saudi Arabia, custodian of Islam's holiest sites, to "recognize the one and only Jewish state," he added.
Support for Israel has been a longstanding US strategic policy in the Middle East under both Democratic and Republican administrations.
Weeksbefore the joint attack on Iran, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee insisted that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "does not want a war with Iran" and ridiculed the notion that "tiny little Israel is pushing the US into something itdoes notwant to do." He also denied that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was conducted in pursuit of Israeli interests, insisting that "zero" American troops were ever put on the ground for Israel.
(RT.com)
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