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Mike Rounds: “The Houthis basically aren't near your, your, your moods…”

Featuring: Mike Rounds, Republican | U.S. Senate South Dakota

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Senator Rounds Talks Iran on Bloomberg

Published | Video Starts at 03:00

Is it, is it worth that risk to move the oil well? Yeah, let me first of all clarify. The Houthis basically aren't near your, your, your moods where we're talking about. That's closer to, to the Iranian coast. There's about a 20 mile stretch there, about two in the middle of it, which most of the tankers actually come through coming down out of the Persian Gulf and out. (03:00–03:08)

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Asserts that the Houthis are not near the Strait of Hormuz, which is closer to the Iranian coast.

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