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Ted Cruz: “That's about $80 billion that the Ayatollah has made because…”

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

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Ted Cruz Questions Biden Official On The Middle East

Published | Video Starts at 02:05

How much is Iran selling in oil a day now? Somewhere short of 2 million. So it went from 300,000 barrels a day to 2 million barrels a day. That's about $80 billion that the Ayatollah has made because your administration refuses to enforce oil sanctions. No, we do enforce oil sanctions. Well, you do so terribly because the number has increased almost tenfold. (02:05–02:12)

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Asserts that Iran has made about $80 billion due to the U.S. administration's failure to enforce oil sanctions.

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