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Scott Bessent: “With the Iranian government, we did not have regime change…”

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

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LIVE: White House press briefing with Scott Bessent

Published | Video Starts at 20:36

How can the administration still argue that a cease fire is in effect? Again, with the Iranian, With the Iranian government, we did not have regime change, but we changed the regime. As President Trump said at the Cabinet meeting, as we've said other times, the first layer of leadership was eliminated. The second Layer, and we're now at the third layer. (20:36–20:42)

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Asserts that the regime in Iran was changed without a regime change.

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