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James Lankford: “President Trump doing a blockade around Iran, not allowing…”

Featuring: James Lankford, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

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Lankford Joins Fox News Sunday

Published | Video Starts at 01:44

We felt closer a couple of weeks ago than it feels like we are now. We'll have to see. There's a breakthrough moment that comes on the Iranian economy right now. President Trump doing a blockade around Iran, not allowing oil ships to get in or out has put a real strain on the Iranian economy. Obviously, they can't do commerce. Iran just reopened its Internet last week. It's hard to imagine that they had almost three months with no Internet anywhere in the country that … (01:44–01:53)

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Asserts that President Trump's blockade on Iran, preventing oil ships from entering or leaving, has strained Iran's economy.

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