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Ted Cruz: “Iran at the time was selling 1 million barrels of oil a day…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Tucker Carlson and Ted Cruz Discuss US Foreign Policy, Iran, and Israel

Published | Video Starts at 1:29:57

He did that. And then I urged him to end the oil waivers and to sanction the hell out of the country, and it ended up crippling their economy. So. So Iran at the time was selling 1 million barrels of oil a day. When President Trump ended the oil waivers, it cut their sales to 300,000 barrels a day. At the end of the Trump term, the Iranian economy was in shambles. They had massive inflation. I think the regime was teetering. I think it might have fallen. (1:29:57–1:30:12)

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Asserts that ending oil waivers reduced Iran's oil sales significantly.

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