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Scott Bessent: “We did not have regime change, but we changed the regime…”

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

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Trump deal with Iran, gas prices, economics & more addressed during Scott Bessent, Larry Kudlow chat

Published | Video Starts at 02:50

They have turned off the Internet. So there was an information vacuum. And we'll see is the Iranians have engaged as they could. I would point out We did not have regime change, but we changed the regime. The first level leaders decapitated, the second level decapitated. So we're dealing with the third level. And it's very tough because on one side we have a theocracy with the clerics, on the other side we have a thugocracy with the irgc. (02:50–02:59)

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Asserts that the U.S. has decapitated the first and second level leaders of Iran's regime.

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