00:00Did the United States bomb a girls' elementary school in southern Iran on the first day of the war and
00:05kill 175 people?
00:06No, in my opinion, based on what I've seen, that was done by Iran.
00:11Is that true, Mr. Hickson? It was Iran who did that?
00:13We're certainly investigating. Still investigating.
00:16But the only side that targets civilians is Iran.
00:21We think it was done by Iran.
00:25Because they're very inaccurate, as you know, with their munitions.
00:28They have no accuracy whatsoever. It was done by Iran.
00:31But he was asking whether you have indications of whether Russia is supporting Iran somehow in this.
00:37No, I haven't had that. I haven't had no indication of that whatsoever.
00:41If they are, they're not doing a very good job because Iran is not doing too well.
00:46Did you consider using the SPR or tapping into the SPR at some point?
00:51Strategic reserve? Yeah.
00:53Well, I'm the one that built them up. Biden used them so that he could get some extra votes in
00:57the election.
00:58It turned out it wasn't even him that ran. It was Kamala.
01:01And she obviously didn't get any extra votes because we won in an absolute landslide.
01:06So he should have used it for that. He used it to get...
01:09I filled it up, and he brought it down to the lowest level it's ever been.
01:14We will start at the appropriate time, which is basically a gut instinct.
01:19I think we will start filling up these strategic reserves.
01:22Does anyone want to be involved in the selection of the next leader of Iran?
01:27Can you talk to me about that?
01:27Well, because I don't want to just come back every 10 years.
01:30And mostly you'll have presidents, mostly, that won't do that because they don't get it.
01:36But we don't want to come back every five years or every 10 years and do this.
01:40So we want to pick a president that's not going to be leading their country into a war.
01:45What sort of thing do you want to see in a deal?
01:47I mean, do you think you have maximum negotiating leverage at this point?
01:51I think the president has proved that we have.
01:54We're all drawn today.
01:56QCUS is hitting.
01:57We have a lot of negotiating leverage, maybe maximum, but we're not looking to settle.
02:02They'd like to settle. We're not looking to settle.
02:04I just put out a response.
02:06Give me the offer to send two aircraft carriers, maybe, maybe, but they're not sure.
02:12I just put out a response.
02:14I said, we don't need them.
02:18It's not the right time.
02:19It would have been nice to have had them two weeks ago, but the response I put out, I think,
02:25says it very well for you.
02:30Mr. Wykov, have you communicated to the Russians not to send targeting?
02:34Information and other assistance to the Iranians.
02:37You strongly said that.
02:39And do you believe that they are?
02:41I hope they're not.
02:44Do you see any evidence?
02:45We don't know, but it's not doing very well.
02:48If they are, it's not helping much.
02:50If you take a look at what's happened to Iran in the last week, if they're getting information, it's not
02:57helping them much.
02:57It sounds like you think they're running out of one or both of the drones.
03:01I mean, when you look, I mean, they're sending in much less, much less drones.
03:05They're being decimated.
03:07Now, you know, at some point, I don't think there'll be anybody left, maybe, to say we surrender, but they're
03:14being decimated.
03:15Some Iranians are concerned that the Kurds will carve out kind of an autonomous region as they did in Syria
03:21and Iraq.
03:21We're not having, we're not looking to the Kurds going in.
03:25We're very friendly with the Kurds, as you know, but we don't want to make the war any more complex
03:30than it already is.
03:31Have you ruled that out?
03:32We don't want, yeah, I have ruled it out.
03:34I don't want the Kurds going in.
03:36I don't want to see the Kurds get hurt, get killed.
03:41We've had a good relationship.
03:42They're willing to go in, but we really, I've told them, I don't want them to go in.
03:46They're on their third or fourth level of leadership, and they have leaders right now that nobody even knows who
03:52they are.
03:53Thank you very much, everybody.
04:22Thank you very much.
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