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According to a video on NBC News, on Monday May 18, 2026, Senator Lindsey Graham offered a detailed account of his assessment of Iran’s intentions during his interview on Meet the Press, arguing that the country’s current leadership would not merely seek to possess a nuclear weapon as a deterrent but would actively use it in pursuit of specific geopolitical goals that directly threaten the United States and its allies.
Graham’s comments were part of a broader argument he was making about why the Iran nuclear issue must be treated as the single most important foreign policy priority, above economic concerns, electoral politics, or diplomatic caution.
He had been asked whether President Trump was right to say that he does not factor the economic situation of ordinary Americans into his thinking on Iran. Graham endorsed the president’s framing and used the opportunity to explain why.
The senator argued that Iran’s leadership is driven not merely by national interest or regional ambition but by a religious ideology that sets it apart from other adversarial states.
He said this ideological foundation makes a nuclear-armed Iran uniquely dangerous because it removes the rational deterrence calculations that typically prevent nuclear-armed states from using their weapons.
In his words, Senator Graham said, “I believe Iran wants a nuclear weapon. They would use it, so does President Trump — use it as part of their religious agenda, destroy the Jewish state, hold us hostage. So his audience is the Iranian regime,” he said.
Graham concluded that the proper response to this kind of threat is not negotiation but sustained pressure, and that any weakening of the United States position would only embolden a regime he described as fundamentally committed to regional destruction and hostility toward America.
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