Sen. Lindsey Graham, RSC, questions Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on defense hearing on the budget request for the Department of Defense in Washington. (AP Photo) Casting shadow over the ongoing mediation between US and Iran, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham on Tuesday called for rejecting Pakistan as the mediator for talks in West Asia and declared that he doesn’t “trust” Islamabad, suggesting that Washington should look for an alternative mediator in order to have truce with Iran. During a hearing of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on the Iran war and the defence budget , Graham expressed his anguish over the deadlock in peace talks between Washington and Tehran. BREAKING: Sen. Lindsey Graham unloads on Pakistan after reports claim the Middle East mediator allowed Iran to use their bases to park military aircraft. “I don’t trust Pakistan as far as I can throw them.…