Top US General: Israel weakened Iran

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00:00What was achieved? What were the most important, most significant achievements of these last 12 days?

00:07Well, I think the most important achievement has largely been one that is military,

00:12and it has been to really strategically weaken Iran and its capabilities.

00:19Iran has built most of their military and security capabilities around long-range standoff weapons,

00:26around proxies, and around the nuclear weapons program.

00:31So certainly Israel, through their series of strikes, has deeply disrupted their surface-to-air missile launching capability.

00:42A lot of those missiles have been expended in retaliation fires, and a large number of those have been shot down.

00:50And Israel has largely taken out a lot of their manufacturing process for these types of missiles.

00:57So this is, I think, pretty significant.

00:59We've seen the impact that they've had on the proxies, particularly Hezbollah, Hamas,

01:05and it certainly seems that the Iranian militia groups in Iraq and Syria seem to be deterred,

01:12at least for the time being, in terms of taking any action.

01:16And then, of course, we know that the object of the activities over the last week

01:21has really been the nuclear weapons program that has largely been, I think, set back to some degree.

01:27Thank you, guys.