Pete Hegseth: “Iran has an ability to make that deal. But what we're…”

“That's their job, to rein that in and ultimately create a condition for a deal. Right. That's not something I talked about in these remarks, but that's happening in real time. Iran has an ability to make that deal. But what we're demonstrating with Project Freedom is they don't control the Strait. I mean, we know Iran is embarrassed by the fact that our blockade is holding and we can run ships through and we're going to help the world run ships through.” (1:03:36–1:03:44)

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