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Discussion on US-Iran Relations and Military Action
Ayer nos dijo que Israel iba a atacar a Irán y
que por eso teníamos que intervenir.
Hoy el presidente dijo que—
No.
Irán iba a—
Sí, su afirmación es falsa. Eso no es lo que él…
Me preguntaron muy específicamente. ¿Estuvo usted allí ayer?
Sí, yo hice la pregunta.
De acuerdo.
Espere un momento.
Había una amenaza totalmente inminente y la amenaza inminente era que sabíamos
que si atacaban a Irán, y creíamos que los atacarían,
que nosotros
sabíamos que si atacaban a Irán y
creíamos que los atacarían, irían de inmediato contra nosotros.
No, ¿hizo…? ¿Fue usted a quien yo…
Porque alguien me hizo una pregunta ayer:
"¿Entramos por Israel?".
Y dije… Usted me preguntaba eso. La pre… la repregunta.
Y dije: "No". Te dije que esto tenía que pasar
de todos modos.
Perdón.
El presidente tomó una decisión, y la decisión que tomó fue que a Irán
no se le iba
a permitir esconderse de- detrás de su programa de misiles balísticos,
que a Irán no se le
iba a permitir esconderse detrás de su capacidad para realizar estos ataques.
Esa decisión ya se había tomado. El presidente sistemáticamente, eh,
tomó la decisión de
destruir sistemáticamente esta capacidad terrorista que tenían, y lo llevamos
a cabo. Fui muy claro en esa respuesta.
Era una cuestión de tiempos, de por qué esto debía ser una operación
conjunta, no
una cuestión de la intención.
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Original transcript (English)
Yesterday, you told us that Israel was going to strike Iran, and that that's why we needed to get involved. Today, the president said that- No ... Iran was gonna get-
Yeah, your statement is false. So that's not what he... I was asked very specifically. Were you there yesterday? Yes, I asked the question. Okay. Wait a minute.
There absolutely was an imminent threat, and the imminent threat was that we knew that if Iran was attacked, and we believed they would be attacked, that we knew that if Iran was attacked, and we believed they would be attacked, that they would immediately come after us.
No, did you, were you the one that I... 'Cause somebody asked me a question yesterday, "Did we go in because of Israel?" And I said... You were asking me that. You f- the follow-up. And I said, "No." I told you this had to happen
anyway. Sorry. The president made a decision, and the decision he made was that Iran was not gonna be allowed to hide be- behind its ballistic missile program,
that Iran was not gonna be allowed to hide behind its ability to conduct these attacks. That decision had been made. The president systematically, uh, made a decision to systematically destroy this terroristic capability that they had, and we carried
that out. I was very clear in that answer. This was a question of timing, of why this had to happen as a joint operation, not the question of the intent.
