Tehran, July 13 -- Broadcasters and state-aligned platforms in Tehran openly celebrated the sudden passing of senior US Senator Lindsey Graham on Sunday, while American President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joined the international community in mourning the influential foreign policy lawmaker.

According to a report by Tasnim, an Iranian news agency affiliated with the regime, the death of the veteran Republican was marked with hostile headlines, stating, "Graham dies, taking the destruction of Iran to the grave."

The confrontational tone was echoed across domestic networks, where a state television host remarked that "this news is so sweet that I'm reading it twice," while declaring that the "war-mongering...