Iran's Economic Crisis and Global Impact

Yeah, I mean, I think they are there now and they're,

and they're heading there

fast to in a cataclysm. And they've never been good economically.

It's sad, by the way, 'cause Iran is a country with tremendous potential.

Its people are incredible people, hardworking people, smart, industrious,

with an

ancient history to fall back on, and have achieved many things.

At one point, Iran was one of the most prosperous countries

in the Middle East

before the radical clerics took over. So it's a very sad situation.

Their economy now is a cataclysm. But here's the other point people don't

realize.

This is not simply about imposing economic costs on this regime.

Every dollar that Iran has, what, what they have done over the last 30 years

is any

time they get money, be it under Obama sanction relief,

be it under

economic selling of oil and gas or whatever, they don't use

that money to build

hospitals. They don't use that money to build roads.

They don't use that money to improve the life of the Iranian people.

They use that money to do two things: build weapons for themselves and

export the revolution. They use the money to fund Hezbollah.

They use the money to fund Hamas. They use the money to fund Shia militias

in Iraq.

That's what they use. They use the money to sponsor terrorism

and assassination

plots all over the world. And so every penny

that they get into their hands

is money that they use for purposes of these malign activities.

And so when you're denying them money through oil sales and sanctions,

you're not

just punishing them, you are preventing them from getting access to

money that they

will use to try and kill Americans and others around the world,

and their own people, and build weapons, and threaten the world, and ultimately

break out to a nuclear weapon program.