On FOX News Channel’s “Hannity,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) called for the control of the Strait of Hormuz to be permanently taken away from Iran. <\/p>\n
SEAN HANNITY, HOST: The message is unmistakable. The U.S. has the power, the will, to do anything inside of Iran, while life continues as usual inside the USA. This war has already been decided. The only question now, tonight, in the next 23 hours, when will Iran’s extremist leaders accept the reality of their situation? Will they do it the easy way? Will they do it the hard way? I pray for our troops. I pray for our country. I pray for the world. They give the President the deal that he is offering. They take the deal the President is offering. Here with Reaction, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham. A lot of people think that you’re a hawk, and in many ways, you are. You believe radical Islamic terrorists are an existential threat to the world. I agree with you on that point. But, even you put out, you are praying for a deal. You want this deal to go through. What do you think the odds are? SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R-SC): Well, I don’t know. We’ll know pretty soon, won’t we, by 8 o’clock tomorrow. Sure, I’d prefer a deal. And what’s the goal of the deal? It’s to make sure Iran cannot be the largest state sponsor of terrorism, like they were for 47 years. They can’t have a missile program that can affect Europe or the United States. And they forever will be denied a nuclear weapons capability. The Strait of Hormuz not only has to be opened, it can never be controlled again by Iran. All the 60% uranium has to be taken out of Iran. There can’t be one ounce of this 60% grade uranium left in Iran. That would be a bad outcome. They can make a dirty bomb or one day enrich to 90%. So my goal is to get it right. I’d prefer diplomacy, but if we have to use military force, we’re going to do it. The one thing Trump has tried to do is get it right. Everybody else talked about it, but nobody did a damn thing. Trump has done it right. Their military has been obliterated. The goals of no nukes, no missiles, no state sponsor of terrorism were inside the 10-yard line. As to the Strait of Hormuz, right now they’re charging ships, the IRGC, the Iranians, to go through the straits, and they’re taking the yuan, not the dollar. One threat of this whole debacle is if we start allowing the Chinese currency to be traded in oil, that will hurt the dollar. In 1974, every barrel of oil sold and traded in the world is traded in dollars. Now what are the Iranians trying to do? They’re trying to change the currency from a dollar to a Chinese yuan, and that’s an attack on the dollar, and that needs to end too. So I’m very optimistic that President Trump’s going to bring this regime to an end one way or the other. I prefer diplomacy, but this time tomorrow night, they’re either going to do a deal that makes sense for the world and the region and for Iran itself, or we’re going to blow them up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n