On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Michael Baumgartner (R-WA) said that keeping the blockade of Iranian oil would have kept “choking out the economic lifeblood of the [IRGC]. That would put additional pressure on Iran. But I also realize the realities of this five-month window of leverage with the upcoming elections, the impacts on global oil prices.”
Co-host Boris Sanchez asked, “Notably, Iran has only agreed to let them in, inspectors are not yet in the country. We don’t know what they’re going to have access to. And yet, today, the administration signed a 60-day waiver allowing Iran to make billions of dollars in oil sales. What is stopping Tehran from using that money to replenish depleted weapons, to support Hezbollah, etc.?”
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