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Scott Bessent: “We have controlled the strait [of Hormuz].”

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

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Scott Bessent Takes Reporters' Questions At G20 Finance Meeting In Asheville, North Carolina

Published | Video Starts at 18:51

Well, look, Iran does not have control of the strait and they are in a death spiral. We have controlled the strait [of Hormuz]. The limited kinetic strikes that we did yesterday were to take out radar, some patchwork of Tinkertoy erector set radar that they were trying to reconstruct along the banks of the strait. (18:51–18:54)

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Asserts that control over the Strait of Hormuz is maintained.

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