Warren calls on State Department to provide more aid to Americans stuck in Middle East
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The State Department said this week that 36,000 Americans had returned to the U.S. after the start of the war with Iran.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Thursday questioned why the U.S. Transportation Command and the State Department were not doing more to get stranded American citizens out of the Middle East amid the war with Iran.
There may still be tens of thousands of U.S. citizens stuck in the region, and the Trump administration has been too slow to act as violence spilled out of Iran into surrounding countries, the Massachusetts Democrat said at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.
"Let's be clear, the Trump administration chose this war. They planned this war for months, and they made no plans to safeguard hundreds of thousands of Americans in the region. There is no excuse for this," Warren said.
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Iran's threat to the Strait of Hormuz can't be fixed by releasing oil from strategic petroleum reserves.
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Analysts say any attempt to attack or seize Iran’s strategic oil hub is likely to be fraught with risk.
The Strait of Hormuz, the world's most critical chokepoint for oil shipments, has been effectively closed since the U.S. and Israel began the war on Iran.
His comments to CNBC come as the U.S. and Israeli-led war appears poised to enter its third week.
The U.S. Central Command said that the loss was "not due to hostile or enemy fire."
The State Department said this week that 36,000 Americans had returned to the U.S. after the start of the war with Iran.