“Why don’t we do that: I simply received off the cellphone with two Democratic senators. Let’s make Russia a state sponsor of terrorism below U.S. legislation. Let’s make them pay a value for killing Navalny.”
There are 4 international locations at the moment labeled as state sponsors of terrorism by the US: Cuba, North Korea, Iran and Syria. The
designation comes with a battery of sanctions, together with restrictions on overseas help and a ban on protection exports and gross sales.
Graham mentioned Sunday that laws including Russia to the record might come as early as this week.
“President Biden instructed Putin, if one thing occurs to Navalny, you’re going to pay a value. President Biden, I agree with you, the value they need to pay is to make Russia a state sponsor of terrorism,” Graham mentioned.
Navalny, 47, was repeatedly focused lately, and was topic to imprisonment and poisoning. A nerve agent
was discovered “in and on” his physique in 2020,
sparking international backlash and main the Biden administration to position
new sanctions on Russia.
Navalny’s demise comes a month earlier than a presidential election in Russia, the place Putin is ready to increase his greater than two-decade domination of the nation.
