Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar hosted a U.S. House delegation headed by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and organized by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee on Tuesday morning, his office said.
Jerusalem’s top diplomat said he briefed the visiting lawmakers on “regional issues,” highlighting “the potential threat of ISIS in Syria.”
“I thanked them for passing House legislation against the ICC, which is waging legal warfare against Israel,” Sa’ar concluded, in reference to the International Criminal Court case against officials of the Jewish state.
On Monday, a bipartisan Senate delegation led by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) sat down with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israel Defense Forces’ Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv.
They also met with Sa’ar, who said he “emphasized that Iran seeks to compensate for its weakened position by obtaining nuclear weapons.”
“We discussed regional issues, including Lebanon, Syria, Gaza, the Houthis and Iran,” according to a statement from Sa’ar’s office.
Later that night, speaking during a press conference at the David Kempinski Hotel in Tel Aviv, Graham told reporters that “the overarching theme” of the meetings with Israeli government officials was Iran.
“Iran with a nuke is a nightmare for the Jewish state; it’s a nightmare for the world because Arabs will want a nuclear weapon of their own, and you’ll have a nuclear arms race,” the lawmaker said, adding that the prospect of the regime developing the bomb keeps him up at night.