Fanatical Zionist US senator Lindsey Graham’s latest appearance on Fox News has him gloating about how America does not need its own boots on the ground because he wants to arm Iranian civilians with weapons and guns to rise up and destroy the regime from within.
For decades, the CIA has funded and armed rebel groups, including in Iraq, Libya, Yemen and Syria, to destabilize governments hostile to US interests, just as it did in Iraq following the 2003 invasion.
The warmongering Senator said:
If I were President Trump and Israel, I would load the Iranian people up with weapons so they can go to the streets armed and turn the tide of battle inside Iran. We don’t need American boots on the ground. We’ve got millions of boots on the ground in Iran. They just don’t have any weapons.
This is a classic American strategy of encouraging counterinsurgency in West Asia to destabilise the region. The Guardian’s former columnist Seumas Milne wrote ten years ago:
In reality, US and western policy in the conflagration that is now the Middle East is in the classic mould of imperial divide-and-rule. American forces bomb one set of rebels while backing another in Syria, and mount what are effectively joint military operations with Iran against Isis in Iraq while supporting Saudi Arabia’s military campaign against Iranian-backed Houthi forces in Yemen. However confused US policy may often be, a weak, partitioned Iraq and Syria fit such an approach perfectly.
Graham dismisses arming Kurdish factions
In the conversation with the Fox News presenter Sean Hannity, Graham dismissed arming Kurdish factions.
Hannity said he understood that in past attempts to funnel weapons to groups inside Iran, the Kurds stole about 90% of them.
Graham responded by dismissing the Kurds as a viable option. He advised working with someone else instead. He added that if anyone could prove to him that the Kurds were indeed stealing the weapons, the Kurds would “regret that.”
A month ago, Trump had claimed that the US sent guns to Iranian protesters “through the Kurds,” but that he believed the weapons never reached their intended recipients. Several leaders of Iranian Kurdish parties have denied these claims.
January protests
A Middle East Eye (MEE) investigation into the January 2026 Iranian protests revealed several incidents suggesting possible US-backed Mossad infiltration. These included, among others:
- Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Israel’s heritage minister publicly boasted that Mossad agents were among the protesters.
- MEE spoke to sources who took part in the January protests, but saw people on the outskirts of Tehran who were clearly “unusual” and not local.
- Witnesses described seeing civilian bystanders gunned down seemingly at random by unknown assailants.
A New York Times article in March reported that Mossad’s plan to spark an Iranian uprising failed within days of the war beginning, with no mass rebellion materializing. The US paper wrote:
After the strikes and assassinations of the war’s earliest days, the uprising did not come. But Israeli officials say they have yet to give up hope.
Israel’s most loyal ally, Lindsey Graham, seems to keep up these hopes, too.
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