00:00In Iran, then they decide that they want to set up a tolling system in the States of Walmoods.
00:04Not only is this illegal, it's unacceptable, it's dangerous to the world.
00:09We had really good meetings, and obviously it was an opportunity to talk to our allies on the G7
00:13and outline the perspective of what we have going on with Iran.
00:18We talked about a lot of things, but obviously the Iran operation.
00:21And we're very clear, as we've been from the very beginning,
00:23the objectives of this mission have been clear from the very first night the President announced it.
00:27We're going to destroy Iran's navy. We've destroyed their air force.
00:31We're going to basically destroy their ability to make missiles and drones in their factories
00:35and we're going to substantially, and I mean dramatically, reduce the number of missile launchers
00:40so that they cannot hide behind these things to build a nuclear weapon to threaten the world.
00:44As the Department of War has consistently outlined, we are on or ahead of schedule in that operation
00:49and expect to conclude it at the appropriate time here in a matter of weeks, not months.
00:54And the progress is going very well.
00:56Obviously, we have some work to do. We've got to finish the job, and we are finishing that job.
01:01I did describe to our allies, however, that immediately after this thing ends,
01:06and we're done with our objectives, one of the immediate challenges we're going to face is in Iran
01:10that they decide that they want to set up a tolling system in the states of Hormuz.
01:14Not only is this illegal, it's unacceptable, it's dangerous to the world,
01:17and it's important that the world have a plan to confront it.
01:20The United States is prepared to be a part of that plan.
01:22We don't have to lead that plan, but we will be happy to be a part of it.
01:26But these countries have a lot at stake.
01:27Not just the G7 countries, but countries in Asia and all over the world have a lot at stake,
01:31and it should contribute greatly to that effort to ensure that neither the Straits of Hormuz
01:36or, frankly, any international waterways should ever be something that's controlled or told
01:40by a nation-state or by a terroristic government like the one that exists in Iran today
01:46in that radical clerical regime.
01:48So there seems to be a lot of buy-in to that concept.
01:51There's a lot of work happening right now.
01:53The U.K. has played a prominent role in bringing that together, but other countries as well,
01:58and there seems to be a lot of acceptance of all that.
02:00And our allies and partners here, at least to me, seem to be appreciative of updates on our operation
02:07and an understanding of what lies ahead over the next few weeks.
02:10Okay?
02:10Mr. Secretary, those couple of weeks, how seriously is the United States considering deploying ground troops?
02:17And in those couple of weeks, what exactly will we do?
02:21Well, I won't discuss military tactics.
02:23I don't think anyone in our system is going to talk to you about what we have planned
02:26or what we intend to do, and there's obvious reasons for it, but to the extent it has to do
02:29with, like, military tactics and plans, I would refer you to the Department of War,
02:33and the Department of War is probably going to tell you they can't tell you anything.
02:36So, other than to say that we have objectives, I told you what those objectives are,
02:40and we are very confident that we are on the verge of achieving them very, very soon.
02:44Mr. Secretary, on this trade-in-law,
02:46do we get any of these, you know, or upset or off-put at all by the current newsletters?
02:53They never act that way in front of me.
02:55I mean, maybe they say that to you guys, or maybe they say that in other interviews
02:58or when they go on the press, but not in front of me they don't.
03:01I never get that.
03:02On the contrary, these meetings are oftentimes about thanking America for the role we've
03:06played in trying to bring peace in Sudan, the recognition that the president played
03:10a key role in ending what was happening in Gaza, recognition of the role we've played
03:13in stabilizing Syria, recognition, despite what they may have said in the press, that what
03:18we did in Venezuela was good for the world and good for our region and the Western Hemisphere,
03:22recognition of the role we've played in setting up, along with others, like Canada, the gang
03:26suppression force in Haiti, and appreciation for the mediating role we've tried to play
03:33in this war between Russia and Ukraine.
03:35So I don't know.
03:37I mean, you guys ask me these questions, like, if I go into the meetings and these people
03:39are angry, and over there screams or raises their voices, it says anything negative.
03:42And if they did, I would remind them, but I don't need to, but I would remind them of
03:47the role America's played over the last year.
03:48It's been a very productive role and very helpful to them.
03:51And I would just say this, and I said this yesterday, and I'll say it again now.
03:54Iran is, you have enough Iranian people.
03:56The Iranian people are phenomenal people.
03:58They deserve way better than what they have, which is a radical Shia clerical regime that
04:02has basically taken that country's wealth and used it not to build roads and bridges,
04:06not to build health care systems or universities, not to build a better, more prosperous country.
04:11And they've used the wealth of that country to sponsor terrorism, build rockets, build drones,
04:16build missiles, build sea mines.
04:18That's what they've done with it.
04:19They try to kill people all over the world.
04:21And this has to be dealt with.
04:23That country was a threat for 47 years.
04:26That regime has been trying to kill and has been killing Americans all over the world for
04:3047 years.
04:31We have a president that is not going to allow that to continue.
04:34So when we are done, Iran was already weak.
04:37When we are done with them here in the next couple of weeks, they will be weaker than they've
04:40been in recent history, and they will not be able to hide behind those weapons to break
04:44out and get a nuclear weapon, which would be crazy for these people to ever get nuclear
04:49weapons.
04:50It would be crazy.
04:50Look what they're willing to do with the weapons they have now.
04:53They hit embassies.
04:54They target hotels.
04:55They try to kill civilians.
04:56They splash out at all their neighbors.
04:58Imagine if these radical lunatics had a nuclear weapon to threat the world with.
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