Edward Royce actually said...

"This is a state sponsor of terrorism. So you are right that banks don't want to do business with a country that is backing the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocents."

"The reason we are concerned with cash going to Iran, especially $1.7 billion in cash, is because Iran is in the process, with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, of funding terrorism in the region..."

"But what about the interest on that that should have come out of this account?"

"And in terms of my question on the situation of how this was handled with North Korea, why was it not handled the same way with respect to Iran?"