JD Vance warns Iran retaliation to US strike would be ‘catastrophic mistake’

JD Vance warns Iran from retaliating against US 'Midnight Hammer' strikeSource NBC News

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00:00My message to the Iranians is it would be the stupidest thing in the world if they did.

00:03If you look at what happened last night, we had an incredibly targeted, precise,

00:08surgical strike on the nuclear facilities that are the target of the American operation.

00:13Our national interest is for Iran to not get a nuclear weapon.

00:17Our strikes last night facilitated that national objective.

00:21If the Iranians want to enlarge this by attacking American troops,

00:24I think that would be a catastrophic mistake.

00:26And as the president said last night, the Iranians would be met with an overwhelming force beyond that.

00:31So this is a very delicate moment, Kristen.

00:34I don't want to pretend that it's not.

00:35But I think the Iranians, if they're smart, they're going to have to look in the mirror and say,

00:39hey, maybe we're not so good at this war thing.

00:42Let's give peace a chance.

00:44Let's drop our nuclear weapons program and start to make some smarter decisions.

00:47We're, of course, hoping that's exactly what the Iranians do.