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Donald Trump: “Iran is doing very poorly. Their economy is gone. They have inflation of almost 300%.”

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We're opening really a lot of shipyards over the next year. Our military is building like we've never built before. We have 17 different factories being built and munitions factories, and we're doing very well. Iran is doing very poorly. Their economy is gone. They have inflation of almost 300%. Their oil minister just quit. He said, we have no economy, we have no oil, we have nothing. The hormone strait. Tremendous amounts, millions of barrels of oil has been delivered just over the last couple of days. (00:33–00:40)

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Asserts that Iran's economy is failing with nearly 300% inflation.

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