MIDLAND, Texas — Congressman August Pfluger has introduced legislation that is meant to strengthen sanctions on Iranian oil.
Pfluger said this is in response to Iran’s role in the current conflict between Israel and Hamas in the middle east.
“The horrific and barbaric attacks that Hamas conducted against Israel, obviously the blame lays with Hamas, but what the administration has not communicated to the American public is that Iran is the mastermind of this,” Pfluger said.
Pfluger also said the bipartisan legislation would help cut off Iran's funding for its terrorist proxies by giving homeland security investigations the ability to better enforce current oil sanctions.
"This matters for us because we have sanctions on the books that are not being enforced," Pfluger said. "This bill would allow those sanctions to be enforced and it would further drive the need for American oil to be produced at larger numbers, which the Permian basin is obviously the leader in."
This just goes to show how much the Permian Basin’s oil production contributes to U.S. energy production as a whole.
“My message to people that are in the Permian Basin in Midland or Odessa who either participate directly or indirectly in the production of energy is that what you do everyday is truly of national security importance," Pfluger said. "It is a national security tool that allows our economy to function and our military to thrive.”
The Iranian Sanctions Enforcement Act ensures the authority given to HSI and other agencies to carry out sanctions enforcement can't be undone by a future president by codifying into law the 2010 executive order that established the export enforcement coordination center.