Iran press/ America: Iranian and Iranian American social media are reacting negatively to insulting comments made by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of S. Carolina about Iranian genes. Speaking on Fox & Friends on Tuesday, in response to his Democratic colleague Elizabeth Warren, Graham joked that if he took a DNA test, it would probably show that he was "Iranian" and that'd be, like "terrible."
Graham made the comment while discussing Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) decision to release the results of a DNA test supporting her claims of Native American ancestry.
Graham is close to Israel prime minister Benyamin Netanyahu and a staunch supporter of US President Trump's sanctions against Iran.
Many Iranians in social media commented the insult by praying to God that Graham has no Iranian genes because that would be a shame for Iranian genes.
An Iranian-American group rebuked GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham after he said it would be “terrible” if a DNA test showed he had Iranian ancestry.
Jamal Abdi, president of the National Iranian American Council, blasted Graham’s comment as “disgusting” in a statement.
“If you dread the notion of Iranian ancestry and believe all Iranians are liars, you are hopelessly bigoted and unfit to serve in the U.S. Senate where votes affect tens of millions of Iranians and millions more of Iranian ancestry in the diaspora,” Abdi said.
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The US has a very long history of hostility toward Iran and Iranian people.
Americans were responsible for the overthrow of the Iranian government in 1953, and after the Islamic Revolution in 1979 there has been unremitting hostility by the United States towards Iran.
Iran has faced increased US pressure and sanctions since US president Donald Trump's decided in May to withdraw the United States from a 2015 international agreement over Iran's nuclear programme.
Donald Trump has also threatened to halt Iranian oil exports and is pressuring allies not to buy its oil.
On 27 January 2017 Trump signed an executive order banning entry into the country for travellers from some majority-Muslim countries including Iran.
According to the 2010 US Census, Iranians are among the highest educated, highest income minorities in the Unites States. Official data shows about 60% of Iranian Americans have college degrees and the mean household income of Iranian Americans in 2010 was $65000 a year. Iranian Americans have held prominent position in academia and in companies such as Uber (current CEO), Youtube (former CEO), Google (former VP), Facebook (Director level), Ebay (Founder).
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