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Pete Hegseth: “Transit is occurring much more limited than anybody would…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Pete Hegseth, Dan Caine hold press conference at the Pentagon

Published | Video Starts at 20:19

And part of what the President is threatening is ensuring if there's attempts to lay recklessly and irresponsibly lay more mines, we're going to deal with that. It's a violation of the ceasefire. So Transit is occurring much more limited than anybody would like to see and with more risk than people would like to see. But that's because Iran is doing irresponsible things with small, fast boats, crafts, like I said, with weapons on them. These are commercial ships, in some cases cruise ships. (20:19–20:26)

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Asserts that transit through the straits is limited and risky due to Iranian actions.

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