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Pete Hegseth: “We hit some military targets on Kharg, which is a bit of a…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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LIVE: Pete Hegseth holds Pentagon briefing on the Iran war

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The military regime used all of these things for dual use to fund their military, to fund their terror campaigns. We had a lot of legitimate targets. They knew exactly the scope of what we were capable of. We hit some military targets on Kharg, which is a bit of a signal they can't defend it. And so Iran ultimately understood their ability, their future to produce, to generate power to fuel their Terrorist regime was in our hands, it was in President Trump's hands. (28:29–28:35)

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Asserts that the U.S. struck military targets on Kharg Island, indicating Iran's inability to defend it.

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