And the Chairman laid out correctly what the metrics militarily were from the beginning, whether it's ballistic missiles, Iran's Navy. You know, you can't contest a blockade if you don't have a conventional navy destroying the defense industrial base. But It was all in service of ensuring Iran never has a nuclear weapon. So as a, I mean that was. So I want you to know it was all seen through the lens of preventing Iran from having, I understand that's the underlying objective and I, and I do not dispute the military success. (02:08–02:13)
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Asserts that the operation's goal was to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
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