During an appearance on Fox News Channel’s Special Report Monday evening, Vice President JD Vance made it clear that any future attempt by Iran to pursue a nuclear weapon would result in a decisive response from the United States. “They’re going to have to deal with a very, very powerful American military again,” he warned. Vance emphasized that Iran should now understand “we can destroy whatever nuclear capacity you build up. I think that lesson is what’s going to teach them not to rebuild their nuclear capacity.”
Host Bret Baier raised a concern during the interview, asking, “So, after all of this, if the Iranian government survives as is, what’s to stop it from rebuilding over time if they, in fact, moved the 60% highly enriched uranium? That’s the concern.”
In response, Vance explained that the key achievement of the operation was eliminating Iran’s capability to enrich uranium. “No, the big concern, Bret — and this is, again, what we destroyed — is, their ability to enrich uranium. If they have 60% enriched uranium, but they don’t have the ability to enrich it to 90%, and, further, they don’t have the ability to convert that to a nuclear weapon, that is mission success. That is the obliteration of their nuclear program, which is why the president, I think, rightly, is using that term.”
Vance concluded by reiterating the message he believes the U.S. delivered to Iran. “But here’s the question: If Iran is desperate to build a nuclear weapon in the future, then they’re going to have to deal with a very, very powerful American military again. Our hope is that the lesson that the Iranians have learned here is, look, we can fly a bunker-buster bomb from Missouri to Iran, completely undetected, without landing once on the ground, and we can destroy whatever nuclear capacity you build up. I think that lesson is what’s going to teach them not to rebuild their nuclear capacity.”

{Matzav.com}