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<\/a><\/p>\nRep. Tulsi Gabbard on how she would handle Iran<\/strong><\/p>\n Democratic presidential hopeful\u00a0Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii<\/a>, said Thursday that she would re-enter the Iran nuclear deal and end sanctions in response to Iran’s involvement in drone attack against\u00a0Saudi Arabia oil facilities<\/a>\u00a0if she was president.<\/p>\n “What I would do is, I would re-enter the Iran nuclear deal to prevent Iran from continuing to move forward in building a nuclear weapon that puts us and the world further at risk,” Gabbard said on “The Story with Martha MacCallum<\/a>.” Gabbard called the attack a “retaliation” against “extreme sanctions.”<\/p>\n “This this provocation, as you put it, did not just come from out of nowhere, “Gabbard said, responding to MacCallum. “It is a retaliation and it’s a retaliation against the extreme sanctions that are on Iran that’s basically making it impossible for them to sell their oil around the world.”<\/p>\n The congresswoman also doubled down on her criticism of the president for a tweet he made regarding Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n Trump tweeted Sunday that the U.S. was \u201cwaiting to hear from the Kingdom as to who they believe was the cause of the attack, and under what terms we would proceed!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTrump awaits instructions from his Saudi masters,\u201d Gabbard\u00a0tweeted in response<\/a>. \u201cHaving our country act as Saudi Arabia\u2019s b—- is not \u2018America First.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Gabbard had earlier ramped up her rhetoric against the president on Tuesday by comparing him to a “pimp.”<\/p>\n \u201cMy fellow service members and I, we are not your prostitutes and you are not our pimp,\u201d Gabbard, a member of the National Guard, tweeted.<\/p>\n .@realDonaldTrump<\/a> Despicable. Offering to place our military assets under the command of a foreign country\u2014Saudi Arabia\u2014is a disgrace and betrayal of my patriotic brothers and sisters in uniform and to our Constitution. We are not your prostitutes. You are not our pimp. pic.twitter.com\/Cu1OewEMOC<\/a><\/p>\n — Tulsi Gabbard \ud83c\udf3a (@TulsiGabbard) September 16, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nAnd number two… end those crippling sanctions. Every day that we don’t do this, every day we continue down this failed strategy Iran gets closer and closer to a nuclear weapon. That’s a fact.”U.S. officials told Fox News on Tuesday<\/a>\u00a0that Iranian cruise missiles and drones were both used in the attack on the two Saudi Arabian oil facilities, and that they were fired from inside southwest Iran this past weekend.<\/p>\n\n