Republican lawmakers welcomed Israel’s overnight attack against Iran and asked the public to pray for the Jewish State, which waged strikes against Tehran’s expanding nuclear program and military leadership.

“Game on. Pray for Israel,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a defense hawk, wrote Thursday night on the social media platform X.

Similar messages were posted by other GOP members of Congress since Israel unleashed an attack that, so far, has killed Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Commander Hossein Salami, along with two other top Iranian generals.

Speaker Mike Johnson echoed President Trump's consistent warning that Iran never obtains a nuclear weapon in his response, commending the administration for working "tirelessly to ensure that outcome."

"Unfortunately, Iran has refused to agree and even declared yesterday its intent to build a

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