It was a time in which their protections against their nuclear sites had been taken down already. And at the same time, we knew that they were rebuilding their anti aircraft defenses. We knew that they [Iran] were building offensive weapons, both short term and long term missiles. And we wanted to make sure that if our young men and women were going to be in harm's way coming in, we wanted the Iranian defenses to be as low as possible. (00:53–01:02)
CLAIM
Asserts that Iran was developing both short-term and long-term missile capabilities.
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