According to one of the resolutions introduced by the South Carolina Republican Senator on Wednesday, any escalation by Hezbollah against Israel that leads to a major confrontation should be viewed as an attack carried out and executed by Iran.
RT reports: The second resolution would authorize the US president to “use all necessary and appropriate force against the Islamic Republic of Iran” if the president determines that Iran “is in the process of possessing a nuclear weapon” or “possesses uranium enriched to weapons-grade level, possesses a nuclear warhead, or possesses a delivery vehicle capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.”
Both resolutions were sent to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday.
Graham is a foreign policy hawk who has spent his two-decade stint in the Senate repeatedly lobbying for US involvement in foreign conflicts. He has called for “preemptive” US strikes on Iran since 2010, and within days of the Israel-Hamas war breaking out last October, was urging the US and Israel to bomb the Islamic Republic even if Tehran could not be linked to Hamas’ attack on Israel.
Caitlin Johnstone says: “Lindsey Graham is [rumoured to be] gay, but he isn’t gay. I don’t know if there’s a word for the sexual orientation where you can only become aroused by mass military violence, but it’s not gay.”
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