Iran's Nuclear Threat and Regional Stability

And I ask you this in, in light of this, is

that if that is true, you know, and if everybody's worried about the

Strait of Hormuz, what, what would the Strait of Hormuz look like?

What would the Middle East be like if Iran ever achieved

their, their stated goal of getting nuclear

weapons?

Yeah. So here's what pe- Let, let me take big,

to a very basic principle here.

What Iran was trying to do is they were trying to build up so many

conventional

weapons, meaning they'd have so many drones,

so many rockets, so many missiles,

that nobody could possibly touch them.

They would become immune, and behind that shield, behind that conventional

shield of weaponry to threaten the entire region, our forces, even Europe,

they would then break out towards a nuclear weapon.

That was their goal, and what the president had to address

is he could not allow

them to cross the line of immunity.

He could not allow them to reach a point where they had so many missiles, so many

drones, and so many weapons, that you couldn't do anything militarily

about their

nuclear program. That's what they were trying to achieve.

That's what the president prevented and, and he saved the world a tremendous amount

of trouble. Now, look, the only way we would have found out the

opposite is to

allow it to happen, and then five years from now,

everyone would be saying, "I

can't believe they allowed Iran behind a, a conventional shield to build and

develop a nuclear weapons program, and now you have North Korea in the Middle

East." That's what we were on the verge of.

That's what the president has prevented, and that's what he has consistently said

from the very beginning of this operation.

Iran can never have a nuclear weapon, and that's what this whole endeavor has

been

about from the very beginning a-and that's what he's focused on and continues to be

focused on. If Iran had a nuclear weapon, if Iran had a nuclear

weapon, they could do whatever they want with the

Straits.

Think about what we're doing right now, and I think you saw a few minutes ago, you

were playing videos of Scott Bessent commenting on it. The Straits are opened.

There is almost as much oil flowing through the Straits now as before this

conflict, with the exception of Iranian oil,

which is not getting out.

If Iran had a nuclear weapon with which it could threaten it-

its neighbors and the

world, no one would be able to do anything about

the Straits.

They would be able to control the Straits, charge a toll, and decide who got

energy and who did not get energy on this planet.

That's what they would do if they had a nuclear weapon, and worse.

We are talking about a regime that has slaughtered, slaughtered

hun- tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of their own

people drown- throughout the

so-called revolution. If that's what they're willing to do to

their own people,

imagine what they would do to Americans or others in the region, or Israelis or

anybody, if they had a nuclear weapon.

They have no regard for the lives of anyone else.

And, and my last point I wanna make about it,

oftentimes people make the

mistake of equating Iran to a country.

It is a country, but the problem with Iran

is not the country.

The problem with Iran is the revolution, and that's what governs in that country.

It's not the government officials you see with the suits on that go on Meet the

Press and get this free pass on American media.

That's not who we're talking about here.

Who calls the shots in Iran are radical Shia clerics with an,

with an apocalyptic vision of the future.

They believe that it is their religious calling to trigger

about the, the last

days of the world and the apocalypse.

I know this sounds, you know, to a lot of people watching it,

it sounds like

something from a science, from a movie, but it is the reality.

It is the stated purpose of the revolution.

People like that can never possess a nuclear weapon because they will use

it to blackmail the world and to kill people.

It is an unacceptable risk, and President Trump did what other

American presidents said, but never did, which is prevent Iran from getting

one.