Next US election ‘a referendum on Obama’s foreign policy’, says Graham

Senator Lindsey Graham tells Channel 2 news that he is concerned that the “weakness President Obama is showing in Syria, Iraq…. It sends the wrong signal to the Iranians,” outlining his disagreement with the White House’s urgency in trying to seal a deal with Iran on its nuclear program.

Graham says new bipartisan legislation gives Congress oversight of any future deal. “The chances of Congress having a say on [the Iran deal] it is now one hundred percent,” he says. Graham says any future president of the US would “have to certify every 90 days” that Iran is abiding by the agreement.

Graham lamented Obama’s foreign policy for “singling out” Israel and says the next US election would be “a referendum on Obama’s foreign policy.”

“America has to be more aggressive in leading the world,” he adds.

Graham says he supports the two-state solution but “if I’m president, Israelis can sleep soundly.”

He says that while relations between PM Netanyahu and Obama deteriorated, the relations between Israel and the US have not “changed fundamentally” and that Congress supports Israel.

Graham is expected to announce his candidacy for president in the coming days.