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Like I said, we had a target set locked and loaded of infrastructure, bridges, power plants.

Remember, this is a terror regime.

The military regime used all of these things for dual use to fund their military, to fund their terror campaign.

So we had a lot of legitimate targets.

They knew exactly the scope of what we were capable of.

We hit some military targets on Kharg, which is a bit of a signal.

They can't defend it.

And so Iran ultimately understood their ability, their future to produce, to generate power, to fuel their terrorist regime was in our hands, was in President Trump's hands.

That's why they came to the table.

He ultimately said, we can take it all from you.

Your ability to export energy will be taken away.

And the United States military has the ability to strike those things with impunity.

That type of threat.

is what brought them to the place where they effectively say, hey, okay, we want to cut this deal.

You know, it's interesting.

I think it was Captain Fennell yesterday.

I think it was yesterday.