WASHINGTON, July 30 -- India did not send a delegation to the US Senate chamber on Tuesday. It did not need to. When 86 senators voted to advance a sweeping new Russia and Iran sanctions package, the largest margin of any significant foreign policy legislation this session, the countries with the most to lose from the bill's secondary provisions were not in the room to say so.

The Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 cleared its first procedural hurdle on Tuesday, the same afternoon that senators, foreign heads of state, and former colleagues buried its principal author at the Washington National Cathedral. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who had flown to Washington for Graham's funeral and a closed session ...