Mike Rounds: “The Iranians have made it clear that they're going to…”

“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. A significant amount of our oil tankers follow through that route. The Iranians have made it clear that they're going to consider attacking, if they can, some of the vessels in that region. And they've indicated that I think the Russians and the Chinese vessels would be allowed and the rest of them they would be doing battle with.” (03:22–03:31)

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