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Elissa Slotkin: “20% of the world's oil goes through the Persian Gulf.”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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ABC NEWS: Slotkin says "we don't know what the objectives are" in Iran

Published | Video Starts at 00:47

… Persian Gulf and we've won, right, because the thing we never want to have Iran have is a veto over what moves through such a sensitive part of the world. 20% of the world's oil goes through the Persian Gulf. So the fact that they're firing on ships as we talk right now is to me, a proof, number one, that we have not won anything. (00:47–00:50)

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