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>>183108Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump - Video: Mark Levin: Welcome back, America. We're here with our good friend, Hudson Institute Senior Fellow, Keystone Defense Initiative Director, Rebeccah Heinrichs.
Rebecca, thanks for coming back.
Well, we're at this point now where, really, I think it comes down to containment, through a deal, or some sort of victory where we keep the pressure on, military pressure, economic pressure, and so forth and so on.
How do you see this right now?
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Rebeccah Heinrichs: Well, I actually think there's a third way, and that's essentially you put the pressure back on.
You do another military operation, and that is going to be more conducive to getting a deal that works.
President Trump has been incredibly patient with this "rump regime," but it has not delivered.
When the president says, "look, we're going to have a ceasefire," you still have IRGC militia firing on Navy ships.
Now, our military is still in place, Mark, as you know.
So we continue to take out these small boats that are trying to to harm either tankers or our ships.
But, you know, enough is enough.
I mean, we've got them economically squeezed.
They are losing hundreds of millions of dollars a day because of what President Trump's economic pressure campaign is doing.
The military pressure is still in place if President Trump gives the go ahead.
But I still think we have got to do another round. We know what targets we still have to hit inside Iran. That needs to come next.
And then we're going to be in a better position to get these Iranians to actually start playing ball.
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Mark Levin: Well, let's say we do that and let's say we get there and they say, OK, "uncle, we give now we really want to talk to you again."
What do we want?
We know we want no nukes.
We know we want no enrichment.
We know we want to remove all the stored enrichment.
What else do we want?
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Rebeccah Heinrichs: We want control of the Strait of Hormuz. But President Trump was completely right to initiate Operation Epic Fury.
And whenever you saw his critics come in and say, "oh, my goodness, the United States didn't prepare for the Iranians to threaten the Strait," it's nonsense.
We always knew that this was the only thing the Iranians could do.
They could terrorize the Strait of Hormuz, 20-plus percent of global shipping.
And so we cannot give them that card ever again.
And of course, we know that as long as the Iranians can terrorize the Strait - and by the way, there's still 1,500 ships being held hostage by the Iranians stuck in the Strait that President Trump wanted to be able to release with Project Freedom.
We've paused that because the Iranians want us to pause it.
I think that's a mistake.
But I think we've got to take that away.
They cannot be funding proxies throughout the region.
We're really handling that by depriving them of any resources.
They're not even able to pay their militiamen at this point because of the economic squeeze they're in.
But we don't want them to control the Strait. They can't have nuclear weapons, and they can't have a ballistic missile program that can act as a shield so that the United States, with our great partners and allies, the Israelis, so that we can't come in and do this again if we need to in 10, 15, 20 years.
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