00:00This year, many of us have also been in close contact as we sought to address the other longstanding challenge
00:06in the Middle East,
00:07and that's the Iranian regime's pursuit of a nuclear weapon and a nuclear bomb.
00:13And we're not going to let that happen. It's already ended. That aspect of it, in my opinion, has already
00:19ended.
00:20And the Operation Epic Fury crippled Iran's navy. It eliminated it, actually.
00:25They have 159 ships. Every one of them is right now at the bottom of the sea.
00:30Eliminated its air force. They have no planes.
00:33Hit over 90 percent of its weapons factories and destroyed 450 ballistic missile storage facilities and 800 drone storage facilities.
00:42They still have some, but not very much.
00:45We annihilated its air defense systems, taken out almost completely decimated its terrorist leadership and destroyed its economy.
00:54The economy right now, they're over 300 percent inflation, and their money is valueless.
01:00So now, as part of Operation Economic Outcast, and you look at that, and Scott, Dustin's done a great job
01:07with all of you.
01:09We're completely isolating Iran financially, and we're just putting the pressure on,
01:15because hopefully they'll do the right thing fast before it's too late.
01:17You know, it's going to be a time when it's too late, and we won't have a chance of letting
01:24them survive as a nation.
01:26I would like to see that.
01:28I can tell you the people around this table would like to see it.
01:31Some people are surprised to hear that, but they would like to see it.
01:34As you know, the U.S. Navy has cleared Iranian mines out of the way and channels.
01:39They're almost straight, and we're now facilitating the renewed flow of oil.
01:43We recently announced we have escorted more than one billion barrels of oil out of the Gulf.
01:50Now, that's not a lot to Tamim, but it's a lot to most people.
01:54One billion barrels is a lot of oil, no matter how you figure it.
01:59But we recently announced that we've escorted, again, more than one billion barrels of oil out, just in the recent
02:05period of time.
02:07And we're taking out 25 to 30 ships a night, sometimes during the day, but a lot of it's during
02:13the night.
02:14The blockade is the strongest thing that anyone's ever seen.
02:17We call it a wall of steel.
02:19And our Navy is amazing.
02:20Our military is amazing.
02:21It's amazing.
02:23And we now have more oil flowing through the strait than at any point by far since the conflict began.
02:30And, again, a big portion of what we've done, maybe 99 percent of it, is to make sure that Iran
02:39doesn't have a nuclear weapon.
02:40Those sites have been blown up.
02:41We may have to blow up another one, Pickaxe Mountain.
02:45We're not seeing a lot of activity there, but if we do, we'll blow it up immediately.
02:49While this is all excellent news, Iran's terrorist attacks on commercial shipping and neighboring countries have shown the need to
02:57shift Middle East energy infrastructure away from the Iranian checkpoints.
03:01That's why my administration strongly supports the India-Middle East-Europe economic corridor and other places of the form of
03:11getting oil out, whether it's pipelines or anything else.
03:14And together we're on the verge of overcoming challenges that have plagued this region for decades.
03:20This has gone on for decades.
03:21So they called Iran the bully of the Middle East for 51 years.
03:27I would say 47, but I've been saying it for four years.
03:30So the real number is 51 years.
03:33And they're really not the bully anymore.
03:36They can create problems, but they're not the bully anymore.
03:38But they were the bully of the Middle East.
03:40And everybody was very concerned.
03:43And in a way afraid, maybe rightfully so, but they're not afraid any longer.
03:49We continue to stand together.
03:52We are all together, very much united.
03:54We're with them 100 percent.
03:56And we'll create a future for this region and the world that is brighter than ever before.
04:01It's a region which probably has maybe the most potential of any region anywhere in the world.
04:07And it's not just the oil.
04:09It's the mines.
04:09It's the brilliance.
04:10It's the genius.
04:11I know these people.
04:12They're brilliant people.
04:14High energy, maybe sometimes too high energy, right?
04:17We could use the brilliance at a little bit lower energy on occasion.
04:21That would be pretty good.
04:22But they're brilliant people.
04:24And they're great people.
04:25And they're my friends.
04:27And they're doing a fantastic job.
04:29So we think that the situation with Iran could end right after the midterm elections and maybe
04:37before.
04:38I don't know, you never know, but they don't understand what they really don't is that I won the election
04:44in a landslide.
04:45I won all seven swing states.
04:47I won by millions of votes, I won by millions of votes, the popular vote, I won the counties by
04:5386 percent, which never happened before, it's the highest ever, and the electoral college by a lot, by a tremendous
05:02amount.
05:08And I don't think about the election at all when I think about ending the nuclear threat for Iran.
05:18And I just think about ending the nuclear threat from Iran.
05:22And that's all I do.
05:23I think about that.
05:24And it has nothing to do with the election.
05:27If we do well, we should do well, because there's never been a time like it in the United States.
05:33There's never been any time like it.
05:36A man that happens to be sitting at this table right now said that a couple of years ago, said
05:42that a year ago, your nation, sir, was dead.
05:45And now you have the hottest nation anywhere in the world.
05:49And we do, we're the hottest in the world.
05:51We're the best military, the strongest military, and we use it to help our friends, and these are great friends.
05:57So we're going to get rid of the Iran threat.
05:59I think that they'll do something maybe after the war.
06:03I think it's going to go quickly.
06:04Look, it's going to go one way or the other.
06:05It's either going to, we're going to make a deal or it's going to end very, very quickly.
06:09It'll end very, so quickly your head will spin.
06:12So I just want to thank everybody for being here.
06:14I'm very special.
06:15I had a good time making a nice speech today.
06:18I've gotten actually very good marks.
06:19They gave me good marks.
06:20I don't know what that means.
06:22That's, hello, Mr. Prime Minister.
06:24How are you?
06:24Are they good?
06:25Look at, look at your people.
06:27It's amazing.
06:28I've gotten to know these people.
06:30And I'm here because, and I'll tell you what, I'm here largely because I know how good they are.
06:34They're great.
06:35So thank you all very much, and we appreciate it.
06:37And thank you to the media.
06:39Media's been very respectful.
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