Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said he talked to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday morning, hours after the United States launched military strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.
Graham said Netanyahu asked him to tell the American public that “Israel is profoundly grateful for all we do for Israel and very grateful for to President (Donald) Trump for what he ordered last night.”
“He wanted me to urge the Iranian people to end this madness, take this regime down and have a better life for yourselves and be part of the region in a new and different way,” Graham told NBC’s “Meet the Press,” adding that Netanyahu also “wanted me to tell the American people, Israel’s not going to live this way anymore.”
Graham, a close ally of Trump who has been urging the president to take action against Iran, said he doesn’t see US “boots on the ground in our future, but I do see Israel not stopping,” predicting Israel would make Iran’s regime “change, or replace it.”
“This was the right call at the right time. It stopped their program from advancing even further. Iran with a nuclear weapon is an existential threat of the State of Israel,” Graham said. “The country is in the hands of religious Nazis.”
