Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) signaled during an interview over the weekend that President-elect Donald Trump will once again put the clamps on Iran as he did during his first term in office.
Hagerty made the remarks during a Sunday CBS News interview with Margaret Brennan on “Face The Nation” while talking about what Trump’s foreign policy will look like.
“Iran, we had them shut down,” he said. “Iran was broke. Now they’re able to fund terror all over the world. We had a maximum pressure campaign.”
He noted that they were not able to do business with other foreign adversaries during Trump’s first term.
“They were not able to do that under the Trump administration,” he said. “That’s why we saw peace breaking out in the Middle East. Without Iran being shut down, which is what we did under the maximum pressure campaign – President Trump led this.”
“We were able to…
