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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Joe Sommerlad

‘Give them the weapons’: War hawk Lindsey Graham urges Trump to flood Iran with guns for the people to ‘rise up’

South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham has called on the Trump administration to send shipments of weapons directly to the Iranian people so they can lead a grassroots revolution to overthrow their government.

Graham made the suggestion as the U.S. and Iran traded hostilities in the Strait of Hormuz and after President Donald Trump claimed to have sent firearms into the region via Kurdish fighters that had not reached their intended recipients.

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