Benjamin Netanyahu: “They stopped exporting oil, you know, just reduced it…”

“Well, I think in the first term, he believed, as did I, that we could enforce sanctions, a sanctions regime, which he did, and basically bring Iran to its knees, which is a phrase he used. Yeah, well, They stopped exporting oil, you know, just reduced it completely. He hoped that that would work, and it did for a while, but it didn't really stop them. It. I would say it slowed them down, but it didn't stop them.” (05:55–06:01)

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