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The bunker buster bombs we used.
Israel doesn't have those bombs.
No other country has those bombs.
We took them out last year.
The Iranians were still hell-bent on rebuilding them.
And one of the things we are doing right now is taking out their missiles, in particular the southern missile belt.
Right now, Iran is building roughly 100 missiles a month.
They are actively building missiles to threaten their neighbors.
Yeah, they're illustrating powerfully.
They're attacking virtually every Arab neighbor that surrounds them.
They are firing missiles that it's almost like they want to illustrate to the world just how maligned they are.
Look, the quantity of nuclear material, I didn't say anything one way or another on that.
What I said is they were building nuclear weapons a year ago, and our bombing took that out.
They also had an ongoing desire to rebuild them.
I don't have present-day intelligence on what progress they had made towards rebuilding nuclear weapons since we bombed their facilities.
I have no indication that...
they were anywhere close to getting nuclear weapons because our bombing was devastating.
And Margaret, that's one of the reasons I urged President Trump, now is the time.
You know, dictatorships survive because they're perceived as invulnerable.
And in this instance, Iran decisively lost the 12-day war that weakened the regime and set up what the president is doing now.