Iranian-Americans Call Out U.S. Senator Graham For 'Terrible' Ancestry Gaffe

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Iranian-Americans Call Out U.S. Senator Graham For 'Terrible' Ancestry Gaffe

A number of Iranian-Americans have responded with anger after U.S. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham quipped in an interview that it would be "terrible" if DNA testing revealed that he had Iranian ancestry.

A South Carolinian who has been hawkish on Iran and was a vocal critic of the 2015 nuclear deal that was subsequently abandoned by fellow Republican President Donald Trump, Graham quickly sought to clarify his comments by saying that his joke was directed at “the Ayatollah, not the Iranian people.”

But some prominent Iranian-Americans had already decried the perceived slight as “racist” and “disgusting."

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