When it comes to President Trump’s foreign policy on Iran, few Republicans in Washington, D.C. have gone on the record defending it as much as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has. He also hasn’t been shy at all when it comes to taking the Obama administration over their , which did exactly the opposite of containing the Iranian regime.
Such was the case on Tuesday night, when Cruz was interviewed on Sean Hannity’s program as news broke of Iranian against American and Iraqi targets in Iraq.
Thankfully there were no American or Iraqi casualties in the attacks, but that didn’t stop Cruz from absolutely unloading on the Obama administration, of funding the very missiles used in last night’s strikes:
“If you look at Iran policy, I think you’ve seen a dramatic shift [under President Trump],” he said. “Under Barack Obama, as you noted, the policy was appeasement. The policy under the disastrous Iranian nuclear deal under Obama was to give over $100 billion to Iran.”
Cruz recalled how $1.7 billion in cash was sent via airliner to Iran — “on pallets, in the dead of night.”
“In a very real sense, the missiles that we saw fired on U.S. servicemen and women tonight were paid for by the billions the Obama administration flooded the ayatollah with,” he said, “If history teaches anything, it’s don’t give billions of dollars to people who hate you and want to kill you.”
Watch below:
"Under Obama as you know the policy was appeasement...the policy was to give over $100 billion to Iran... the missiles that we saw fired on U.S. servicemen and women tonight were paid for by the billions that the Obama administration flooded the Ayatollah with." -- Sen. @tedcruz pic.twitter.com/SNCcZw0KzZ
— ForAmerica (@ForAmerica) January 8, 2020
This is a point President Trump has made time and time again as well when pressed on the Iran situation by panicked , and the Obamaites are most certainly not pleased with the reminder:
