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US Senator Lindsey Graham has publicly mocked Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, dismissing his military threats as Washington and Tehran remain locked in high-stakes nuclear negotiations.

In a post on X on Tuesday, Khamenei warned about US warships being sent toward Iran, writing that although they are “a dangerous piece of military hardware,” what is more dangerous is “the weapon that can send that warship to the bottom of the sea.”

“Bold talk for a one-eyed fat man,” the hawkish Republican senator responded on Wednesday, apparently referencing a line from the 1969 western ‘True Grit.’ “See you at the movies. Oh I forgot, you don’t have movies,” the senator concluded.

Graham has been escalating his rhetoric against Iran in recent days, likening Khamenei to Hitler at the Munich Security Conference last week, and calling for regime change in Iran and strikes on its infrastructure.