And then third, they still have access, as this reporting shows, the 30 out of 33 ballistic missile sites. And as I said earlier, and this is the dominant fact of this war, They [Iran] now have two strategic deterrence. One, they can race to a bomb harder. Two, they can exercise choke point control over the strait. How is that? If war is the extension of politics by other means, how has this war extended our situation relative to Iran in a superior way relative to what it was eight weeks ago? (00:09–05:45)
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Asserts that Iran has two strategic deterrents: potential to develop a nuclear bomb and control over the Strait of Hormuz.
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