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@SecPompeo on #Iran:
We are effectively and continuing to put increased pressure on Qasem Soleimani & the IRGC, his forces, as well as on the ayatollah.
You’ve seen it. We’ve taken almost 95 percent of their crude oil revenue, and it has evaporated. It’s gone.
@SecPompeo on #Iran:
We are effectively and continuing to put increased pressure on Qasem Soleimani & the IRGC, his forces, as well as on the ayatollah.
You’ve seen it. We’ve taken almost 95 percent of their crude oil revenue, and it has evaporated. It’s gone.
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That revenue is not available for Iran to conduct naval exercises, terror campaigns, assassination efforts around the world. We are denying them wealth and resources.We’re still only truly a handful of months into a full-on ban on crude oil shipments.
That revenue is not available for Iran to conduct naval exercises, terror campaigns, assassination efforts around the world. We are denying them wealth and resources.We’re still only truly a handful of months into a full-on ban on crude oil shipments.
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This will begin to force the Iranian leadership to make very difficult decisions about how to spend the now limited money that they have in their hands. This is the opposite of what happened in the previous administration.
This will begin to force the Iranian leadership to make very difficult decisions about how to spend the now limited money that they have in their hands. This is the opposite of what happened in the previous administration.
