US President Donald Trump today supported adding Iran to a proposed Russia sanctions bill, urging Republicans to include Tehran in the legislation.
Trump said in a Truth Social post that Republicans should add Iran to the Russian Sanctions Bill.
Earlier he said he couldn’t care less about Iran’s decision to stop abiding by the US-Iran memorandum of understanding (MoU), reiterating that Washington’s priority remains preventing Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
Trump’s Truth Social Post referred to Sanctioning Russia Act, a legislation championed by the late US Senator which seeks legislation to impose sweeping sanctions on Russia and its supporters, replacing the earlier proposal for blanket tariffs with targeted measures aimed at the world’s largest buyers of Russian energy.
The bill, first introduced in April 2025, has seen recent momentum after having been stalled in Congress while Trump seeks to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end his war with Ukraine.
Graham had announced a breakthrough before his death, saying that a deal was reached with the White House to move forward on the long-stalled Russia sanctions package.
“Republicans should add Iran to the Russian Sanctions Bill,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “That’s what Lindsey wanted to do, and it was going to happen. IMPORTANT!!!”
The Trump administration has — for more than a week — resumed its conflict with Iran via a series of attacks and a halt to negotiations to end the conflict that started with joint U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran in late February.
The U.S. military launched retaliatory attacks Saturday in response to Iranian strikes that saw two service members killed in Jordan. Trump has called these deaths “a very sad thing.”