Senator Tom Cotton
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 3 Jun
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Those are the means that we're going to use to achieve those objectives.
But not just a unique opportunity, but a unique and gathering danger.
The opportunity is that, as you say, that Iran was badly weakened last summer.
They've been badly weakened since the October 7th, 2023 atrocity of Hamas against Israel.
Israel has helped destroy much of its so-called ring of fire.
You might say it's a ring of smoke now, the smoking ruins.
of Iran's strategy in the Middle East.
Their military was exposed and badly degraded last summer as well.
But there is still a unique danger.
It's that missile arsenal I mentioned.
Thousands and thousands of missiles, far more than we have in missile defenses.
And if you look at the rates of productions that they have of missiles and the United States and Israel have of missile defenses, it gets worse every single month.
I don't think we can live with that.
Iran can already reach our bases from as far as Western Europe to the Indian Ocean.
They're trying to develop missiles that can hit us in the United States.
I know Israel can't live with that missile imbalance.
So it's both a unique opportunity and a unique danger that is gathering on the horizon.
As you said earlier, we shouldn't wait until that danger arrives.
We should knock it out now.
And if Iran, if the regime in Iran falls, if Iran is replaced just with some kind of normal government,
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