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Pete Hegseth: “Iran will never have a nuclear bomb.”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth full speech at Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth

Published | Video Starts at 08:30

And American ships around the world and in that region sail freely. Peace through strength, reestablishing deterrence. If you look at Iran and what President Trump said about their nuclear capabilities, they said, Iran will never have a nuclear bomb. Iran didn't want to pay attention to that or believe him. And then exactly to the day, 60 days later, 14 beautiful. Excuse me, seven beautiful B2s. (08:30–08:32)

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Asserts a policy stance that Iran will not be allowed to develop a nuclear bomb.

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