English transcript

What the world has believed was the missile

capabilities of Iran was really the medium range,

and that was the 1,200 miles or roughly 2,500

kilometers that we believed, the whole world

believed, and Iran publicly said they could

do, was in this radius here. That's what we've

been operating on. The missiles launched, the

intermediate range missiles that we did not

know Iran had that capability. This wasn't just

a target, Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean,

it was a message. A message that we can strike

a much wider radius. And if you look here, there

are European capitals in there. If you imagine

that Iran could put a nuclear warhead that could

fire into a European capital in a much wider

range, that is now a different threat that we

look at. And lastly, when you consider, as Lucas

was talking about, the ability to intercept

these missiles, it's more difficult with something

as large and powerful as an intermediate missile.

And of course, the radius of which you would

have to have interceptors to protect from, not

just our own forces and Israel's forces in here,

but also in European capitals, changes the equation.