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Scott Bessent: “Our military destroyed their air force, destroyed their…”

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

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Treasury Secretary Bessent: U.S. Treasury will oversee frozen Iranian funds when they're released

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Yeah, look, I think we didn't have regime change, but we've changed the regime. And that's what took a long time in terms of getting to the negotiations. The actual fighting which Our military destroyed their air force, destroyed their navy, destroyed a large part of their missile stockpile. but more importantly destroyed 80 or 85% of their missile producing capabilities. So we've done that. But Joe, what took a long time was finding people to negotiate with. (02:00–02:09)

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Asserts that the U.S. military destroyed significant parts of Iran's military capabilities.

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