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Rep. Waltz: President Trump is Right to Go After Iran Revolutionary Guard
Washington, DC,
April 9, 2019
Earlier today, Representative Michael Waltz (FL-R) joined Fox News Channel’s Fox & Friends to discuss the deaths of three Americans in Afghanistan yesterday and the Trump Administration’s designation of the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps. as a terrorist organization.
“I think this is absolutely right to go after the IRGC,” Waltz said. “You have to remember they report directly to the Supreme Leader, they run themselves just like the mafia. Some estimate upwards of 20% of the Iranian economy is run through businesses controlled by the IRGC, and this allows us to go after anyone who is doing business with them, they’re put on notice. We have to continue to squeeze the Iranian regime economically so they can’t finance terror all over the Middle East.”
Waltz also expressed his support for letting the six-month waivers that have allowed eight nations to continue importing Iranian oil to expire in early May.
“The Achilles Heel of Iran is not its military, it is its economy,” Waltz added. “That’s how it finances these surrogate groups all over the world, and that’s what the President knows and that is what he is going after.”
A video of the exchange is available here.
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