Senator Lindsey Graham on Monday questioned whether the United States should honor a long-sought defense agreement with Saudi Arabia, saying the kingdom’s refusal to join military operations against Iran made the partnership difficult to justify given that Americans were dying in a war Graham himself helped push the Trump administration to start. “Americans are dying and the US is spending billions to dislodge the terrorist Iranian regime,” he wrote. The Wall Street Journal reported that Graham spent months pressing Donald Trump to authorize strikes on Iran, first raising the idea during a round of golf shortly after the 2024 election. Graham, in an interview with the outlet, said Israeli officials sometimes shared information with him that “our own government won’t tell me”. Preliminary casualty figures stand at roughly 1,255 killed in Iran, which are mostly civilians, according to the health minister.

Source: The Guardian March 10, 2026 16:32 UTC