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Pete Hegseth: “Our blockade has stopped almost 140 ships attempting to…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Hegseth talks 'hitting Iran hard' at CENTCOM

Published | Video Starts at 06:25

So answer me this. If our blockade is ironclad, which it is, we just disabled another tanker attempting to leave just yesterday. Our blockade has stopped almost 140 ships attempting to navigate in or out to Iranian ports. So if our blockade is ironclad, which it is. And we were able to move commercial shipping in and out of the Strait of Hormuz. Who controls the Strait of Hormuz? (06:25–06:32)

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Asserts that the U.S. blockade has stopped nearly 140 ships from accessing Iranian ports.

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