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Pete Hegseth: “Nuclear material will be destroyed and removed.”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Pete Hegseth says U.S. is "already doing things I can't talk about" to reopen Strait of Hormuz

Published | Video Starts at 02:49

It is, it's performance based. No money released to Iran until they perform. There's no trust and verify. There's a, there's no trust here and we're going to verify everything. Nuclear material will be destroyed and removed. The nuclear program will be dismantled. The Straits will be open, no tolling. This is, this is not. The JCPOA was a path to a bomb. (02:49–02:52)

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Asserts that the deal requires Iran to dismantle its nuclear program.

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