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US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday (April 8) that the Strait of Hormuz is open and the US military would be "hanging around" in the Middle East to ensure Iran complies with the ceasefire.

He also said it is non-negotiable in their ongoing talks that Iran cannot have nuclear capabilities, and the US military will monitor the country's enriched uranium stockpile.

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00:09build rockets build launchers what little they have left buried in bunkers is all they will have
00:17they can still shoot we know that their command and control is so decimated they can't really
00:22talk and coordinate so they still may shoot here and there but that would be very very unwise but
00:29they can no longer build missiles build rockets build launchers or build UAVs you see had Iran
00:36refused our terms the next targets would have been their power plants their bridges and oil and energy
00:44infrastructure targets they could not defend and could not realistically rebuild it would have
00:50taken them decades and we were locked and loaded they couldn't defend against it President Trump
00:57had the power to cripple Iran's entire economy in minutes but he choose he chose mercy he spared
01:06those targets because Iran accepted the ceasefire under overwhelming pressure yeah we'll be hanging
01:13around we're not going anywhere we're gonna make sure Iran complies with this ceasefire and then
01:19ultimately comes to the table and makes a deal so we'll we'll stay put stay ready stay vigilant as the
01:25chairman laid out our troops are prepared to defend prepared to go on offense prepared to restart at a
01:30moment's notice with whatever target package would be needed in order to comply come ensure that Iran
01:36complies it's always been non-negotiable that they won't have nuclear capabilities and so right now it's
01:41buried and we're watching it we know exactly what they have and they know that and they will either
01:46give it to us which the president has laid out well they'll give it to us voluntarily we'll get it
01:51we'll take
01:51it we'll take it out or if we have to do something else ourselves like we did Midnight Hammer or
01:56something
01:56like that we reserve that opportunity what we know is that Iran is going to say a lot of things
02:02a lot of
02:02people are going to say a lot of things claim a lot of things what has been agreed to what's
02:06been stated is
02:06the strait is open our military is watching sure their military is watching but commerce will flow thank you
02:12all very much appreciate it
02:23you
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