Lindsey Graham (R-SC) just pulled a U-turn, walking back his earlier call to seize Iran’s Kharg Island, a major oil hub in the Persian Gulf. Just weeks ago, Graham had urged Donald Trump to send U.S. forces to capture the island, which handles around 90% of Iran’s oil exports. Then, in a surprising reversal, he went on Fox News and said the U.S. shouldn’t take the island at all.
Graham first made his call on March 22, when he appeared on Fox News Sunday. At the time, the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran was just three weeks old. “Keep it up for a few more weeks, take Kharg Island, where all of the resources they have to produce oil,” Graham said. “Control that island. Let this regime die on a vine.”
