Cuba’s days ‘are numbered,’ Sen. Lindsey Graham says after touting Iran strikes
(WCIV) — U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, approving of Donald Trump and Israel’s continued strikes in Iran, offered a hint at where he wants the United States to focus its attention next.
FILE – Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speak during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Sept. 13, 2022, in Washington. The Georgia prosecutor investigating possible illegal election interference in the 2020 election said Thursday, Oct. 27, that the Supreme Court should not stand in the way of Graham’s testimony to a grand jury. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)
While speaking on Fox News, Graham likened Trump to Ronald Reagan, saying he was taking some actions that the 40th president hadn’t. The senior senator from South Carolina also claimed that there is still far more work to be done by the United States military in other countries outside of Iran. Specifically, the United States’ southern neighbor.
“Cuba is next,” Graham said emphatically. “They’re gonna fall. This communist dictatorship in Cuba, its days are numbered.”
Graham is a long-known supporter of military intervention abroad when countries aren’t operating in U.S. interests. He has backed a military interventionin Iran for over a decade, and in the wake of Operation Epic Fury, remains adamant that the United States stands on the precipice of toppling the current Iranian political order.
“We have a chance here to not only take the mothership of terrorism down, Iran. We also have a chance to eliminate one of the most lethal proxies in the Middle East, Hezbollah,” Graham said. “Mr. President, do it. And do it now. They are weak. We can take them out, and we should take them out.”
Graham’s comments came before Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spoke at a Monday morning news conference, where he assured the public that America’s current conflict in Iran wouldn’t be “endless.”
Hegseth said the operation had a “clear, devastating, decisive mission” to “destroy the missile threat” from Iran, destroy its navy and “no nukes.”
Asked if there are currently boots on the ground in Iran, Hegseth said, “No, but we’re not going to go into the exercise of what we will or will not do.”
He added that it was “foolishness” to expect U.S. officials to say publicly “here’s exactly how far we’ll go.”
Four American troops have been killed in action. Trump on Sunday predicted there would be more U.S. casualties.
U.S. officials have not offered any exit plan or offered signs that the conflict would end anytime soon, and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s death cast doubt on the future of the Islamic Republic and hurtled the region into broader instability.
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