Pete Hegseth: “Iran's navy's gone, air force gone, air defenses.”

“So think of, think of this chain of events militarily just for a second. You had 45 days of overwhelming combat which Iran could not manage and their Iran's navy's gone, air force gone, air defenses. Then it led to a blockade which was impenetrable now for a couple of months. And then you had the underground Project Freedom which allowed now 125 million barrels of oil to transit the Straits, showing that we control the Straits.” (03:18–03:26)

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