{"id":280041,"date":"2026-02-08T04:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T04:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/280041\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T04:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T04:12:09","slug":"graham-open-to-iran-deal-but-congress-must-approve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/280041\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham: Open to Iran deal, but Congress must approve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said on Saturday that any deal between the US and Iran must meet America\u2019s national security needs and should be brought before Congress for a vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">\u201cAs to any deal between Iran and the US, I hope it can meet our national security objectives and the needs of the people of Iran through diplomacy. Given Iran\u2019s behavior regarding deals, it could be a tough sell,&#8221; Graham wrote on social media. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">\u201cHowever,&#8221; he continued, \u201cI am open minded, understanding any agreement with the Islamic Republic and the United States must come to Congress for review and a vote.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Graham has taken a tough line on Iran so far. Last week, <a class=\"\" album=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/news\/421814\" target=\"_blank\" data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">he spoke out<\/a> against a deal between the US and Iran, arguing that true peace in the Middle East would only be possible once the Iranian regime falls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">\u201cThe biggest thing you could possibly do to the Middle East is take this regime down, and they\u2019re as weak as they\u2019ve ever been since 1979,&#8221; Graham said in an interview with Fox News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">\u201cMr. President, you can do it, I hope you will do it,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said on Saturday that any deal between the US and Iran must meet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,87,33526,46,70878,43,76279],"class_list":["post-280041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-iranian-nuclear-program","tag-israel","tag-lindsey-graham","tag-news","tag-us-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}