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Scott Bessent: “Numerous ships, maybe in double digits, have been destroyed.”

Featuring: Scott Bessent, Republican | Secretary of the Treasury | National

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'BAND OF PIRATES': Bessent TORCHES Iran's navy as US flexes power in Strait of Hormuz

Published | Video Starts at 03:19

Project Freedom is something that's been in the works, and we would encourage the Iranians to let these more than 300 vessels leave that, you know, they can fire on them. They're, I think it's called the Mosquito Navy is being swatted. Numerous ships, maybe in double digits, have been destroyed. And the US we are just firing if fired upon. We are not the provocateurs here. But if the Iranians want to escalate here, we are willing to escalate. (03:19–03:24)

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Asserts that many ships, possibly over ten, have been destroyed.

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