They have menaced America, killed Americans, undermine our national interests, you know, destabilize the Middle east and threaten the entire Western world. We knew, I'll give you a little more detail. We knew that Iran's plan here in the last few weeks was if attacked, that they were going to delegate operational decisions to their field commanders to inflict pain on the whole region. And just as we suspected, they have attacked military bases and innocent civilian sites, by the way, in Jordan, Qatar, you know, Kuwait, Bahrain and the uae and all those countries are either already joining us against Iran or they're carefully considering it right now. (07:57–08:06)
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Asserts that Iran planned to delegate operational decisions to field commanders if attacked.
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