WASHINGTON — Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, who has drawn 2028 presidential buzz, bizarrely applauded a disputed report claiming that over two dozen Iranian shadow vessels bypassed the US blockade.
“Awesome,” Murphy (D-Conn.) posted on X Monday in response to a report from the shipping journal Lloyd’s List.
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Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell has denied the Lloyd’s List report that at least 26 Iranian-backed shadow fleet ships snuck past the US blockade President Trump began imposing last week.
The Post contacted Murphy’s office for comment and context on his social media post.
Murphy, 52, who has been a staunch critic of the war in Iran, has repeatedly bashed the US on the world stage over recent weeks.
He trekked to Spain last week, amid the country’s row with Trump, and claimed the US is facing “the most significant threat to American democracy since the Civil War.”
“We are not on the verge of a totalitarian takeover, we are in the middle of it,” he fumed, urging worldwide progressives to “beat back the forces of fascism.”
The progressive darling’s cheering on of Iran drew a torrent of backlash from social media, with critics reminding him of Iran’s brutality.
“First of all this is false. Second, a Dem senator cheering on the number one state sponsor of terror is shameful,” Parnell sniped on X.
