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Ted Cruz: “They fund Al Jazeera, they're spreading Islamist propaganda.”

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

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Published April 20, 2026 | Video Starts at 32:00

By the way, These are the same guys that host the leadership of Hamas in Qatar. They live like billionaires. They live like kings. They fund Al Jazeera, they're spreading Islamist propaganda. They're supporting the Muslim Brotherhood. They're spreading anti American garbage. They're spreading anti Semitic garbage. They're funding these violent radicals on campuses. These communists on campus, by the way. (32:00–32:05)

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“Banks are limiting withdrawals to 18 to $30 a day.”
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“Qatar is the number one foreign funder of US Universities.”
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“The top university recipients of those foreign funds in 2025 are Carnegie Mellon, almost a billion dollars, MIT almost $1 billion, Stanford…”
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“Harvard University has disclosed that it has received more money from counterparties located in countries of concern, which are countries…”
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“Iran tried to have a tanker run the Strait of Hormuz that did not work well and it resulted in a big hole being blown in that tanker.”
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“Qatar, which has been the number one foreign funder of US Universities for many, many years.”
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“An Iranian flagged cargo ship named Tuska, nearly 900 foot long and weighing almost as much as an aircraft carrier, tried to get past our…”
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“The Tuska is under U.S. treasury sanctions because of their prior history of illegal activity.”
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“The federal government has arrested an Iranian woman at LAX right before she was about to get on a flight to Turkey.”
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“Charmin Mafi is accused of brokering Iranian bombs, weapons, drones and ammunition to Sudan.”
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“Mafi, who lives in la, allegedly brokered, quote, millions of rounds of ammunitions for Iran.”
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“One of her contracts was worth 60 million euros and it was to broker the sale of Iranian made drones between Iran and Sudan.”
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“In another instance, mafia and her co conspirator allegedly sold 55,000 bomb fuses to the Sudanese military.”
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“Iran is risking doing permanent damage to its oil fields, which is a source of revenue.”
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“80% of the crude supply of the Strait of Hormuz has already been replaced or rerouted.”
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“OPEC has already agreed to lift quotas by exactly the amount that Iran exports, about 2 million barrels per day.”
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“The US Naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz would cost Iran approximately $276 million a day in lost exports.”
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“Over 90% of Iran's 109.7 billion in annual trade transits the Persian Gulf.”
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“Oil and gas account for 80% of government export earnings and 23.7% of GDP [in Iran].”
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“Kharg island alone generates 53 billion a year, or as I noted at a time 78 billion a year in energy revenue.”
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“Iran was exporting 1.5 million barrels a day, earning 139 million a day at wartime pricings.”
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“Petrochemicals? Iran exported 19.7 billion in petrochemicals in nine months of 24 and 25.”
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“Iran's non oil trade hit 50. 51.7 billion in 2025.”
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“Iran imported 58 billion in goods in 2025, 159 million a day.”
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“In 2025, [Qatar gave] over 1 billion.”
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“Iran has 50 to 55 million barrels of total onshore oil storage, roughly 60% full spare capacity, about 20 million barrels.”
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“Iran's fields already declined 5 to 8% annually.”
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“Forced shut ins could permanently destroy 300,000 to 500,000 barrels a day of production capacity.”
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“Overall inflation, 47.5%.”
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“A Naval blockade imposes $435 million a day in combined economic damage.”
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“Iran's alternatives outside the strait can replace less than 10% of the Gulf through point.”
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“In Iran, we have zero boots on the ground.”
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“The day President Trump began this military assault, the Democrats began attacking, not Iran attacking him.”
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“The military goals President Trump laid out have been virtually 100% accomplished.”
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“Between 1986 and 2005, [Qatar has given] 7.7 billion.”
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“The list of those universities that receive the most money from the countries that hate us are almost exactly the list of the universities…”
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“Qatar, who among other things, funds Hamas.”
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“Israel is not on the top 70 countries [funding US universities].”
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“Middle Eastern nations like Qatar and Saudi Arabia have donated billions [to US universities].”
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“The Qatar Foundation, a state run nonprofit that Doha uses to peddle influence in American higher education, hired the Washington Media…”
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“Northwestern has a campus in Qatar that holds a contract with Qatar forbidding its students and faculties from criticizing the Qatari…”
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“The Cutter foundation also retained the law firm Venable at a monthly rate of $25,000 for government relations services.”
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“These are the same guys that host the leadership of Hamas in Qatar.”
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“Qatar also funded spies spying on me.”
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