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Scott Bessent: “President Trump has made it clear that his goal is to…”

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Treasury Secretary Bessent: U.S. is allowing Iranian tankers through Strait of Hormuz

Published | Video Starts at 00:33

Are there any tools that you, treasury, the president can or will use outside of the SPR and the global coordinated release to mitigate how higher prices and impacts from the war? Well, again, it'll depend on the duration of the conflict. And President Trump has made it clear that his goal is to degrade and destroy the capabilities, the military capabilities of the regime to destroy the Navy, which is done, the Air Force, which is done. And now the bombing campaigns are going after the factories so that they cannot recreate these things. And we want to destroy the Iranian ability to project power outside of their borders. (00:33–00:52)

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Asserts that President Trump aims to degrade and destroy military capabilities of a regime, including its Navy and Air Force.

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