‘Amoo Lindsey’: Why Millions of Iranians Are Mourning Senator Lindsey Graham

Amoo Lindsey: The American Lion Who Heard a Voiceless Nation

By: Amil Imani

There is a particular kind of grief that has nowhere official to go. You cannot put it in a formal Senate resolution or capture it in a cold White House press release. It shows up instead outside an embassy gate at night, in a huddle of heartbroken strangers holding candles against the wind.

That is where a crowd of Iranian dissidents gathered on Sunday night, hours after the shocking news broke that Senator Lindsey Graham had died suddenly at the age of 71 from a swift and sudden illness. Outside the U.S. Embassy in London, they lit candles, raised the historic pre-1979 Lion and Sun flag, and wept openly, chanting for him to rest in