00:00I think at some point, the United States is going to have to take a look at a larger target
00:04set that is going to have a more debilitating and destabilizing effect on the Iranian regime, which really at this
00:10point is the IRGC.
00:12It is no longer about the Ayatollahs. They've been essentially pushed off into irrelevance.
00:18IRGC is calling the shot both in the government, the economy and how they are addressing the United States and
00:25the world in their actions.
00:26And so consequently, the target set is going to come to first dual use facilities, both of both civilians and
00:33the military use.
00:34It is going to be an unfortunate consequence that the civilian population is probably going to unfortunately suffer more as
00:40a result of those strikes.
00:42But nonetheless, the United States cannot tolerate Iran continuing to fire not only at our forces, but also the facilities
00:50throughout the Middle East.
00:51And just this morning, we heard Iran say that if we start to take out those infrastructure key points, whether
00:57it is bridges, which we've already struck, power plants, et cetera, that they're going to start aiming for the infrastructure
01:03that sustains the Middle East flow of oil throughout the world.
01:07And if you really look at it, the United States is not going to respond to that, is not going
01:12to tolerate that any more than our allies in the region.
01:16The one advantage the United States and our allies have is they have the capacity to rebuild.
01:22With the blockade in face and continued economic squeezing in Iran, when we take out those facilities, Iran is not
01:29going to have the capability to rebuild.
01:31I mean, already we've seen them attempting to try and reconstitute their nuclear program, despite the strike earlier this year
01:39with Operation Midnight Hammer, to take out those facilities.
01:42So clearly, Iran has not learned, they have not behaved, and they continue to take actions that clearly destabilize the
01:50region.
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