00:00Well, at the end of the day, if you look at the military objectives, the original military objectives that were
00:04laid out, it was to ensure that Iran cannot become a nuclear power in terms of nuclear weapons.
00:11Certainly that has been set back, whether the material is recovered or not, preferably that it is, but even without
00:18recovering the material immediately, that's been set back decades, a very long time.
00:23It was to destroy Iran's ability to produce ballistic missiles of increasing sophistication, range and accuracy.
00:30That has been accomplished already.
00:32The final objective was to decrease Iranian malign behavior, either through the use of proxies or by themselves.
00:40That's the remaining sticking point, because we're seeing that, especially in the Strait of Hormuz, but also via Hezbollah in
00:47Lebanon.
00:47So I think both from the U.S. side and likely from the Israeli side, what we've seen is a
00:56great deal of success in reducing the threat that Iran represents, either to the United States, to the global community
01:04at large, or to the Israelis specifically.
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