Washington, May 3 -- Sending mixed messages on the state of the war with Iran when asked about its status and its impact on the energy market, Director of the White House National Economic Council Kevin Hassett today said that "the market has been pretty consistent," and adamantly stated that Washington's use of sustained pressure on Iran was successfully damaging it.
"The fact is that what the president is seeing is that the blockade is working, it's putting an enormous amount of pressure on Iran," Hassett told CBS News.
When asked if the US was still at war with Iran, amid the expiration of 60-day timeframe under the War Powers Act and the ceasefire, Hassett said "I don't know what the definition of war is when we're not shooting and we...