Rubio Stumps State Dept. About Iran's Access To U.S. Dollars

At a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing today, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) continued pressuring the Obama Administration for answers on its reported attempts to help Iran illicitly access U.S. dollars.

As a follow-up to Rubio’s still unanswered letter last week to Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, the senator today pressed Thomas Shannon, the Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, about reported Obama administration attempts to help Iran evade existing U.S. laws in order to access U.S. dollars. Rubio described one potential scenario that would allow Iran to acquire U.S. dollars and asked Shannon if such an approach was legal.

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