You go out and meet the commanders, SOCOM and elsewhere, and you listen to them. And it dawned on me very rapidly that with a little exaggeration, Every significant terrorist threat we face, especially in the Middle East, once you scratch the surface within a nanometer, there's Iran. Not just Shia threats, but Sunni threats as well. We know the nexus to Hamas, to Hezbollah, to the proxies. That's why the President's letter to the late Shah to the late Ayatollah was very clear. (07:09–07:19)
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