Lindsey Graham on breaking the Iran deal, snubbing Cuba, and being a bachelor president

Republican presidential candidate and senator Lindsey Graham says he’d roll back the Iran nuclear deal if he wins the White House, and warns that any Republican taking on Hillary Clinton must bring their A-game. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)

Republican presidential candidate Lindsey Graham told Yahoo News in an interview on Wednesday that he would break the Iran nuclear deal on his first day in the White House. He also said he would shut the U.S. embassy in Cuba, and joked that America is ready for a bachelor like him to be president because “married people have screwed up the world.”

Graham, a Republican senator from South Carolina, is a frequent and fierce critic of President Obama’s foreign policy. In the interview, which was broadcast on Sirius XM’s Channel 124, he said he would reach out to America’s partners in the talks, to Israel, and to Iran to say that he was ending it.

Graham also said he would roll back another of Obama’s major second-term foreign policy achievements: the normalization of diplomatic ties between the United States and Cuba after nearly six decades of estrangement.

Graham, one of the House-appointed prosecutors during President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial, weighed in on what the experience taught him about the Clintons. “I’ve learned one thing — it’s that the Clintons are tough as nails,” he said. “When you take a Clinton on, on you’d better bring your A-game.”

And the senator, who is unmarried, joked about being a bachelor president. “We’re overdue. Married people have screwed up the world,” he said. “The country can handle this.”