Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has declared it is “time to take the war to the Ayatollah’s backyard,” urging the U.S. government to bomb Iran every time Hamas executes one of its Israeli hostages in Gaza.
The Republican war hawk told Fox that “for every Israeli or American hostage executed by Hamas, we should take down an Iranian oil refinery.”
Hamas has threatened to execute one of the estimated 150 hostages it took back to Gaza during its 48-hour incursion into Israel on video every time “our people who are safe in their homes [are bombed] without warning” in Israeli air strikes.
“The only way you’re going to keep this war from escalating is to hold Iran accountable,” Graham suggested – although directly attacking Iran would of course immediately escalate the war, and likely cause a massive oil price shock by closing down the Strait of Hormuz.
Nevertheless, Graham said he was “confident this was planned and funded by the Iranians,” branding Hamas “a bunch of animals who deserve to be treated like animals” and urging Israel to “go in on the ground.”
“This is the best opportunity Israel has to destroy Hamas,” he continued. “Take it to the Iranians. If you harm one American in Syria by using your Iranian militia against us in Syria, if you escalate the war by urging Hezbollah to attack Israel in the north, if Hamas kills one American Israeli hostage, we’re going to blow up your oil refineries and put you out of business.”
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