do you think the young protesters, most of them young in the streets will be discouraged and dissuaded in their efforts. this is a movement in iran, which reminds me, president zelenskyy in ukraine, and nelson mandela in south africa, it s a movement in iran which deeply realizes it s on the right side of history, and it s a regime on the wrong side of history. it can temporarily be delayed with repression but slogan of the protesters is we want to reclaim iran, it s a protest patriotism. we have seen movements, the green revolution in iran with some success, but always pushed down, repressed, is this time different the way you see it? it s certainly different for the people of iran. these protests span many socioeconomic classes. they are ongoing. they have been now three months, and there s no turning back for the iranian people. even when we hear banter that
markets. restricting exports of technology and freezing trillions of dollars of assets including those control by russian elites close to putin. and today the u.s., eu, canada and united kingdom committed to remove selected banks from the s.w.i.f.t. system, a big move in punishing russia economically. and congresswoman sarah jacobs is joining us, a member of the house armed service committee and foreign affairs committee, and she met with president zelenskyy in ukraine last month. we saw that the u.s. and our allies will remove several russian banks from s.w.i.f.t. your thoughts on that move. look, i think it is clear that the sanctions that we had put in place were not enough to make putin change course. and so this escalation was warranted. i think the combination of this decision about s.w.i.f.t. and the restrictions and freezing of assets in the central bank are going to have a severe and devastating consequence on the