Graham says it’s ‘worth losing my job’ for non-nuclear Iran as midterms loom

Published May 17, 2026 12:58pm ET



Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), one of the Senate’s biggest Iran war hawks, is putting his full chest and his job behind the U.S.-Israeli war, saying the conflict is “worth losing my job” over.

“If I had to give up my job to make sure Iran would never have a nuclear weapon, I would do it,” Graham said on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday morning when asked if a non-nuclear Iran would be worth losing the midterm elections for.

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