US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said President Donald Trump’s actions had significantly weakened Iran and its regional proxies, creating an opening for negotiations aimed at ending Tehran’s nuclear ambitions and for the Abraham Accords to expand to new countries.

“I sincerely hope the upcoming negotiations to forever foreclose Iran’s nuclear ambitions are a success,” Graham said. He added that Iran and its allied regional groups were “incredibly weakened” and that their capacity to organize “another October 7 doesn’t exist,” saying Tehran’s nuclear program had also suffered “a major setback.”

“The ultimate win”

Graham framed regional integration, rather than military action alone, as the measure of success that would follow the recent confrontation with Iran. He said the “ultimate win” of the broader pressure campaign against Tehran would be a pathway to peace built through an expanded Abraham Accords framework.

“If the conflict with Iran yields this outcome, it will be one of the most successful military operations in American history,” he said.

Trust, distrust, and a path to Riyadh

Asked about confidence in the diplomatic track, Graham distinguished between the American and Iranian sides of any negotiation. “The president can be trusted. I don’t know about the Iranians — given 47 years of deceit, I would say no,” he said, adding that President Trump had “done more to deal with Iran than anybody since I’ve been around,” and that the Islamic Republic was now “the weakest they’ve been militarily,” with an economy “in shambles.”

For Graham, the strategic objective extends beyond containment. He pointed directly to Saudi Arabia as the next milestone for the Accords, arguing that Riyadh’s entry into the normalisation framework depends on Iran remaining in a weakened position.

The senator’s public statements

Graham laid out the bulk of his position in a series of posts on X. Responding to remarks from President Trump, he wrote that expanding the Abraham Accords was one of the most important goals voiced by the president, and that achieving it depends on the region coming to see Iran as either weakened or changed in its behavior as a sponsor of terrorism.

The post followed earlier commentary from a separate account tracking developments in the region, which relayed Graham’s remarks on Iran’s diminished capacity alongside his outlook for a Saudi-Israel normalisation track.

Graham closed his thread by endorsing President Trump’s stated focus on the long-term outcome rather than the immediate conflict. “Mr. President, you are right to keep your eye on the big prize: regional integration and lasting peace,” he wrote.