Senator Graham Calls for Military Strikes on Iran if Sanctions Fail

Washington, DC – “If sanctions fail, and the President believes they’re going to fail, then you have to put on the table military force,” said Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), outlining his plan for confronting Iran during a speech today at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Graham advocated for first applying broader and more aggressive sanctions against Iran.  “I know they will hurt the people,” he said, “but they don’t mind because they want to be free at the end of the day.”  He said the Obama Administration must get more aggressive with Russia and China.  “I would tell the Chinese, ‘you import one third of the gasoline the Iranians use.  You need to stop.’”  

However, Graham said his optimism is at “less than 50 percent” that sanctions would change the Iranian regime’s behavior or lead to its ouster. 

“So, if a year from now, after some real strong effort to sanction Iran, it didn’t work out, I would send signals to the Iranian regime ‘cease and desist; go forward at your own risk.’  And the only way to stop them for certain is to neuter their capability to stay in power.” 

Graham urged for US action because, “the worst possible thing that could happen in the Mid-East is an Israeli strike against Iran because that changes the whole equation.  The Iranians would be able on the ‘Arab street’ to have traction they wouldn’t have otherwise.”  He did not ad… >>>

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