Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday referred to as for the “decimation” of the Iranian nuclear program within the wake of a brand new ceasefire in Gaza.
“The next topic I will be engaging in with President Trump, is to take this moment in time to decimate the Iran nuclear program,” Graham advised CBS Information’s Margaret Brennan on “Face the Nation.”
Brennan then pressured Graham on the that means of his assertion, to which he responded that he’s “gonna urge the decimation of the Iranian nuclear program.”
“I don’t think diplomacy works. [President Biden’s Mideast negotiator Brett McGurk] will tell you what they have done to Hezbollah and Hamas has been amazing. The proxies [are] incredibly weakened. Israel can go anywhere they wanna go. This is a … religious Nazi regime,” he added.
“They want to destroy the Jewish state,” the South Carolina Republican continued. “They wanna purify Islam and drive us out of the Mideast. It’d be like negotiating with Hitler. I am hoping there will be an effort by Israel to decimate the Iran nuclear program supported by the United States, and if we don’t do that, it’ll be a historical mistake.”
On Sunday, combating in Gaza got here to a cease as the brand new ceasefire deal went into impact. The halting of the combating within the territory is the primary section within the truce, which was introduced final Wednesday.
Biden hailed the deal on Wednesday, saying attending to it “has not been easy.”
“I’ve worked on foreign policy for decades,” the president added. “This was one of the toughest negotiations I’ve ever experienced. We reached this point because to the pressure Israel built on Hamas, backed by the United States.”
