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they're feeling triggered by de-dollarization ... U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham on April 6, 2026: ❝As to the Strait of Hormuz, right now they're charging ships, the IRGC, the Iranians, to go through the straits and they're taking the yuan, not the dollar. One threat of this whole debacle is if we start allowing the Chinese currency to be traded in oil, that will hurt the dollar. In 1974, every barrel of oil sold and traded in the world is traded in dollars. Now, what are the Iranians trying to do? They're trying to change the currency from a dollar to a Chinese yuan, and that's an attack on the dollar. And that needs to end, too. So I'm very optimistic that President Trump's going to bring this regime to an end one way or the other.❞ * * * * * U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on March 30, 2023, when he was a U.S. senator: ❝Just today, today, Brazil — in our hemisphere, the largest country in the Western Hemisphere south of us — cut a trade deal with China. They're going to from now on do trade in their own currencies — get right around the dollar. They’re creating a secondary economy in the world totally independent of the United States. We won’t have to talk about sanctions in five years because there will be so many countries transacting in currencies other than the dollar that we won’t have the ability to sanction them.❞ https://archive.is/Qnq1R

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