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Chris Wright: “Their crude was flowing before, you know, during sanctions.”

Featuring: Chris Wright, Republican | Secretary of Energy | National

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US Energy Secretary Wright on America's Energy Strategy

Published | Video Starts at 06:24

You know, if Iran gets rid of their nuclear program, achieves what we want us to do. Yeah. Their crude would be allowed to flow again. Absolutely. So that would be lifting of sanctions basically on Iranian oil. Their crude was flowing before, you know, during sanctions. Unfortunately, same thing in Venezuela. You know, the world puts sanctions on, then the world doesn't enforce the sanctions because it's hard to enforce sanctions. (06:24–06:28)

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