US Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of the most fanatical cheerleaders of the Iran war in Congress, on Sunday hailed the profit potential of the ongoing military assault, which has plunged the region and entire global economy into chaos.

“When this regime goes down, we’re gonna have a new Mideast,” Graham (R-SC) said in a Fox News appearance. “We’re gonna make a ton of money. Nobody will threaten the Straits of Hormuz again.”

Graham went on to respond dismissively to estimates of the massive financial costs of the war so far—roughly $1 billion per day, according to a preliminary Pentagon assessment—and warn of even more devastation in the weeks ahead. More than 1,200 Iranians have been killed by the US-Israeli onslaught so far.

“You just wait to see what comes in the next two weeks,” said Graham, who has characterized the assault on Iran as a “religious war” that “will determine the course of the Middle East for a thousand years.”

“We’re going to blow the hell out of these people,” the Republican senator said on Sunday.

The illegal US-Israeli war on Iran, which is now in its 10th day with no end in sight, has been a boon for American weapons contractors and liquefied natural gas giants, which stand to make tens of billions in windfall profits if the conflict and its reverberating impacts on global energy markets continue.

The Trump White House has repeatedly declined to provide a clear objective or timeline for the war. On Sunday, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the president has not ruled out a ground invasion of Iran.

A classified report assembled by the US National Intelligence Council found that “even a large-scale assault on Iran launched by the United States would be unlikely to oust” the country’s “entrenched military and clerical establishment,” the Washington Post reported.

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