No he is not.
From 2015 NYT
Opinion | Lindsey Graham’s Curious Military Career (Published 2015)
By all accounts, including his own, Senator Lindsey Graham was a good military lawyer during the six and a half years he spent on active duty in the Air Force before he entered politics.
Since leaving active duty in 1989 and joining the Air Force Reserve, Mr. Graham, a Republican from South Carolina who is running for president, appears to have performed very little substantive work for the Air Force. Yet, he rose in rank to colonel and remained in the service until his retirement in June, which entitles him to a monthly $2,773 pension.
An article by Craig Whitlock of The Washington Post shows that though Mr. Graham did very little in the reserve, it was a mutually beneficial arrangement: He was able to keep the honor of the uniform intertwined with his political life and the Air Force got to keep a lawmaker in its ranks who had stature and sway on Capitol Hill. Mr. Graham, a conservative hawk, sits on the Senate appropriations, armed services, budget and judiciary committees.
Also from here:
What We Really Know About Lindsey Graham's Military Service - The List
In 2015, when Lindsey Graham was vying with Donald Trump for the Republican nomination for president, The Washington Post used a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to learn a little bit more about the candidate's military career. The outlet claims that, during Graham's years in Congress when he kept getting promoted up the ranks, eventually enjoying the rank of colonel, he was given special treatment as a lawmaker.
The Washington Post reported that, during the first 10 years Graham spent as a member of Congress, he was promoted twice, but documentation showed he barely did any work. At the time, Graham was touting himself as a national security expert due to his decades of military work, even highlighting a plum job from the Pentagon that he apparently never actually performed.
His personnel file even showed that, during that first decade as a reservist and a congressman, Graham did about 108 hours of training, which is equivalent to less than 1.5 days per year.
Several individuals were included in a link I previously provided.
If something has been obliterated, i.e. destroyed utterly then to recreate it would necessitate going back to basics and starting over from the very beginning and to do that with a nuclear programme would certainly take far longer than a mere nine months.
Ask Trump he is the one who alleged last June that the Iranian nuclear capability had been "totally obliterated".
From here:
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R40094
My emphasis.
Pursuant to the JCPOA, Tehran applied additional restrictions on its uranium enrichment program and heavy-water reactor program. Tehran also began implementing the additional protocol to the government's comprehensive safeguards agreement, as well as the modified Code 3.1 of the subsidiary arrangements for that agreement. On the JCPOA's Implementation Day, which took place on January 16, 2016, all of the previous Security Council resolutions' requirements were terminated pursuant to UN Security Council Resolution 2231, which, along with the NPT, composes the current legal framework governing Iran's nuclear program.<a href="https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R40094#fn20" name="ifn20" title="" Joint S tatement by EU High Representative Federica Mogherini and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif ," January 16, 2016. For a list of IAEA reports concerning Iran's JCPOA implementation, see Appendix D .">20</a> The IAEA reports findings of its inspection and monitoring activities; the JCPOA-established Joint Commission monitors the parties' implementation of the agreement. However, compliance determinations are national decisions. Until July 2019, all official reports and statements from the United Nations, European Union, the IAEA, and the non-U.S. participating governments indicated that Iran had fulfilled its JCPOA and related Resolution 2231 requirements.<a href="https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R40094#fn21" name="ifn21" title="Iran's stock of heavy water exceeded the JCPOA-required limit of 130 metric tons on two occasions since the P5+1 began implementing the agreement. "In both instances, this issue was resolved after Iran shipped out sufficient amounts of material to get back under the limit," the State Department reported in April 2017 ( Adherence to and Compliance with Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament Agreements and Commitments, Department of State, April 2017). For more information, see CR...">21</a>
Beginning in July 2019, the IAEA verified that some of Iran's nuclear activities were exceeding JCPOA-mandated limits; Iran has since increased the number of activities that violate JCOPA restrictions (see Appendix A). According to IAEA reports, Iran's number of installed centrifuges, enriched uranium stockpile, enriched uranium u-235 concentration, and number of enrichment locations exceed JCPOA-mandated limits. Tehran is also conducting JCPOA-prohibited research and development (R&D) activities, as well as centrifuge installation.
However, by 2019 Trump had withdrawn the USA from the agreement and so Iran had no reason to continue to comply.
The first Gulf War was conducted by a UN led initiative against Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. In 2003 many allies of the USA, including my country and the French "cheese eating surrender monkeys" did not join the euphemistically termed Coalition of the Willing.
From here:
Oman resists US pressure to break ties with Iran over strait of Hormuz
Arman Khorsand, head of Iran’s Department of Environment Center for International Affairs and Environmental Conventions, said this week: “The issue is not charging vessels simply because they pass through the strait. The objective is to secure resources needed to address environmental damage and compensate for the consequences of actions that have undermined the principle of innocent passage.
“US military operations conducted in the region have not only generated security and humanitarian consequences, but have also inflicted significant environmental costs.”
Under widely recognised principles of international law, he said those responsible for causing damage “should bear the costs of remediation”.
One might opine that Mr Khorsand has a point.
Yet you have suggested the USA is little different by condoning what would, if implemented, would amount to war crimes.
That is purely speculative. While I detest the Iranian regime and would prefer it did not exist, I do not think that Iran would threaten the USA with nuclear terrorism. As I have noted the current regime may be fanatical but I doubt it is suicidal.
Interesting that you consider my link from 2016 to be irrelevant yet happily post a link from 2025.
Satellite Images Capture Activity at Iran’s Fordow Nuclear Site After U.S. Strikes
Story by Jared Malsin
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So you keep writing.
The Strait was open and functioning normally until Mr Trump decided to start his
excursion and bomb Iran. The present situation in the Strait is entirely of America's making.
See above.
Fuel prices in Europe have always been higher than in the USA. Indeed your present (for the USA) high gas prices are still lower than here.
I have given you my answer. I would rather not see any country, including Iran, with a nuclear capability but I can understand that countries that have nuclear capability do not get threatened by the USA.
From your own intelligence reports your assumption was wrong.
Are you suggesting a nuclear option? How do you think Gulf allies would react. As I have noted elsewhere the wind does blow
You can read the article from Congress.
As that congressional report shows until Trump withdrew the USA from the JCPOA, Iran was complying.
I would have thought you would ascribe a higher ethical position to the USA rather than comparing it to a terrorist state.
The court was successful in bringing war criminals to justice.
Your claim is not borne out by reality
Once again you seem content to have the USA linked with terrorist and rogue states.
The EU did not exist in 1945. The Treaty of Rome was signed in 1957 and the EEC resulted from that.
Hence when Netanyahu was planning to visit Budapest, the then leader of Hungary, Orbàn, withdrew Hungary from the ICC.
Iran Strikes Israel With Missiles In Retaliation To Israel Striking Lebanon
