Former U.S. Ambassador to Germany Ric Grenell, looking ahead to this week’s gathering of the United Nations General Assembly, said Sunday on Newsmax that he wants to hear what newly elected Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will have to say. 

“They’re flush with cash right now,” told Newsmax’s “Sunday Report.” “Between what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have given them in sanctions relief, credit, and cash, they got hundreds of billions of dollars.”

Grenell, a director of national intelligence under former President Donald Trump, pointed to a New York Times story from 2019, which said that Hezbollah and Hamas fighters were not getting paid because Trump’s sanctions had squeezed Iran. 

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