Iran Sanctions: Secretary Discusses Economic Impact and Regime Conduct

Secretary Iran, um, you talked about their bleeding.

Uh, do you have a timeline for, you know, how long the Iranian regime can, can hold on?

And is the end game regime collapse or that the regime comes to the table with less options?

No, the, the t-- I think the way to look at it is you do bad things, bad things will happen to you.

That's the way to re-read it. And at the end of the day, bad things are happening to the Iranian economy, and it's unfortunate.

The people of Iran deserve better. They don't-- But, but it's their own leaders that are imposing this on them. You know, this is not a country that in the past, for example, when Obama gave them sanctions relief, they didn't use that money to build up hospitals,

roads, bridges and universities. They used that money to build weapons and arm proxies in the region to attack us and other countries.

So it's unfortunate that they have to be punished for that and that the Iranian people ultimately pay the price.

But that's 'cause they have really bad lunatic leaders.

So, um, we, we just have to deal with that reality.

But, you know, um, for bad behavior, there will be, there'll be consequences. There has to be.

Otherwise, countries like these, regimes like this will do whatever they want.