US Senator Insults Iranians and Iranian Americans, Jokes About Iranian DNA (Video)
Independent Aggregator of Iran-related News/Events, Kodoom.com: 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 morning, 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." (Minute marker 7:09 in video)
Many Iranians in social media commented about the insult by praying to God that Graham has no Iranian genes because that would be a shame for Iranian genes!
According to the 2010 U.S. 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) and ...
Graham is close to Benyamin Netanyau and a staunch supporter of President Trump's sanctions against Iran.
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