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Pete Hegseth: “Midnight Hammer obliterated [Iran's] ability to enrich and…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Published | Video Starts at 39:47

Can you confirm this? And can you explain why a pact package this large as necessary? Well, first of all, none of this would have been possible without Midnight Hammer obliterated [Iran's] ability to enrich and the capabilities they have in those facilities. in those facilities. So it created the conditions for Iran to step forward and say, okay, you can reach out and touch us like that in our nuclear ambitions. (39:47–39:57)

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Asserts that a mission called Midnight Hammer destroyed Iran's nuclear enrichment capabilities.

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