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“When the US launched Operation Midnight Hammer in 2025 and did several Iranian nuclear facilities, Iran made clear that it didn't want to escalate into a larger conflict, but it retaliated against the US anyway.”
“Obviously the nuclear program had been—had been decisively set back with Operation Midnight Hammer. So that, of course, remains one of the main underlying reasons, as Secretary Hegseth said the other day, a big part of the rationale, strategic rationale, for this operation.”
“Some of the things that weren't hit in Midnight Hammer, we don't think that we got Iran's stockpile of 60% enriched uranium. Also, right before Midnight Hammer, Iran revealed that they have a third enrichment site.”
“If we didn't knock out Midnight Hammer, if we didn't knock out their Iranian potential, if we didn't do that with Midnight Hammer, they would have had a nuclear weapon.”