United States Sen. Lindsey Graham (R - South Carolina) praised fellow US Sen. John Fetterman (D - Pennsylvania) for his statements on the ongoing anti-regime protests in Iran on Monday.
The endorsement came following an interview Fetterman did with CNN in which the democrat called the regime “poisonous” and “one of the world’s top terrorist underwriters.”
Fetterman additionally stated that he would support the US taking military action against the regime, as US President Donald Trump has publicly considered, adding that “the world would be better, safer, and more just” if the regime were “broken.”
Graham described Fetterman’s statements as "a clear-eyed assessment and a common sense approach” in a post made on the social media platform X/Twitter.
“Senator Fetterman, your statement that you would support military force to protect the protestors and weaken the regime is welcomed and impactful,” Graham said, adding that US strikes on Iran would be “a big shot in the arm to those brave Iranians in the streets demanding the end of their oppression.”
Graham praises former US speaker of house
Graham additionally endorsed a social media post made by former US speaker of the house, Newt Gingrich, who similarly shared his support of anti-regime protestors.
Gingrich, on X/Twitter, stated that “It is not enough to sympathize with the Iranian people in their struggle to get free from the dictatorship,” adding that “The goal of every western leader should be to destroy the Iranian dictatorship at this moment of its vulnerability.”
“Nothing will do more to move the Middle East toward peace, safety, and prosperity than the destruction of the Ayatollah’s dictatorship," the former speaker asserted. “The time to act is NOW.”
Graham praised Gingrich's words as “100% correct,” reiterating that “The only right answer here is that we act decisively to protect protestors in the street… proving to them we will not tolerate their slaughter without action.”
Graham called for the US to act decisively on behalf of the protesters, calling the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s government a “pathologically dishonest, religious Nazi regime.”
“This is the best chance since 1979 to change the course of the Middle East,” Graham said, concluding his statement with a call to “Make Iran Great Again.”