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Former US Special Envoy Lt. General Keith Kellogg discusses whether the United States could deploy ground troops in Iran, including potential operations near Kharg Island and the Strait of Hormuz.
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00:00Okay, so you're not excluding the necessity for some troops on the ground in some capacity, perhaps at a later
00:07stage.
00:08Is my understanding correct?
00:10Well, I think where you'd want to put them, the answer is yes and no.
00:14I don't think you're going to involve the 82nd and 100th Airborne Division going on the ground in Iran.
00:19But there are certain places you could use them.
00:21I'll give you two.
00:22One, you could put them on Karg Island.
00:24It is an island, and it's offshore, and you can protect your troops, and you hit them economically because 90%,
00:3180%, 90% of their oil comes through Karg Island.
00:35The second place is on the Straits of Hormuz.
00:37You take down places like Bondi or Ross.
00:40You take a place where you make sure they can't do something from the shoreline that can impact any ships
00:47going through the Straits of Hormuz.
00:49And what I'm talking about, anti-ship missiles that they could put on the land and shoot.
00:54We've already sunk their Navy, so I'm not worried about the naval assets, but those are the two places.
00:59Other than that, I don't see a place you'd want to put troops.
01:02When you look at the geography of that country, it would really be hard to do, and just the sheer
01:08size of the country would make it hard to do.
01:10So I don't think ground troops will be put on the ground.
01:13I just mentioned two areas that have a possibility and potential for doing that, and that's all.
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