Gen Jack Keane: THIS would ‘RESET THE REGION’ for years to come

♪. ♪ ♪. ♪. MARK: WELCOME BACK AMERICA. OUR FRIEND GENERAL JACK KEANE. RETIRED FOUR-STAR GENERAL. PROJECT, I DO NOT KNOW WHAT WE. WOULD DO WITHOUT YOU ON THE. NETWORK. YOU ARE JUST A BREATH OF FRESH. AIR AND AN ENORMOUS ENORMOUS. KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM. HERE'S MY QUESTION TO YOU. OBVIOUSLY, IRAN, WHAT DO WE NEED.

TO DO NOW? AND HOW DO WE ENDED THIS? >> OF COURSE IT'S A BIG BIG. QUESTION. LET ME UNPACK THAT A LITTLE BIT. LET ME REMIND OUR AUDIENCE. REALLY WHAT HAPPENED HERE. ON FEBRUARY THE 28th WE BEGAN. THIS WAR WITH ISRAEL. THE MOST PROVEN IN THE UNITED. STATES TO THE MOST PROVEN. MILITARIES THAT EXIST IN THE. WORLD TODAY AND FIGHTING. TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME. QUITE REMARKABLE IN ITSELF.

WE STOPPED AFTER 38 DAYS FOR THE. PRESIDENT OF SIGNED OBJECTIVES. TO THE MILITARY PRIME MINISTER. THE SAME WITH THE IDF THOSE. OBJECTIVES WERE TO TAKE AWAY. IRAN'S MILITARY CAPABILITY, DESTROY ITS INDUSTRIAL BASE TO. BE ABLE TO REPLENISH IT. TAKE OUT AS MUCH OF THE. LEADERSHIP IN THE ORGANIZATION. THAT SUPPORTED. AND A FOCUS ON SOME OF THE. LEADERSHIP. AND MAKE CERTAIN AS MUCH OF.

THEIR INFRASTRUCTURE INDEED WAS. DESTROYED. AND OF COURSE MILITARY WEAPONS, BALLISTIC MISSILES, DRONES AND. NUCLEAR ENTERPRISE FOR SURE PART. BUTAT THE 38th DAY WE STOPPED WE. HAD ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO TO. FINISH THOSE OBJECTIVES. THOSE OBJECTIVES IN THE MINDS OF. THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL. WOULD NOT CREATE A REGIME CHANGE. IN OF ITSELF THEY WOULD. CERTAINLY WELCOME THAT BUT WOULD. LIKELY PUT IT ON A PATH TO A.

REGIME CHANGE BECAUSE THEY WOULD. BE IN SUCH SHAPE, SUCH A BAD. SHAPE IT WOULD BE VULNERABLE TO. THEIR POPULATION IF WE ASSISTED. THAT POPULATION. THAT WAS KIND OF THE THOUGHT. PROCESS THAN THE STRATEGIC. OBJECTIVE SOMETHING WHICH IS. GETTING LOST HERE IS THAT WOULD. RESET THE REGION FOR YEARS TO. COME. POSSIBLY DECADES TO COME BECAUSE. WE WOULD BE ABLE TO PUT THE. REGION ON A PATH TO STABILITY. AND PEACE WHICH IT HAS NOT.

ENJOYED POST-WORLD WAR II BREAD. THAT IS THE REALITY OF IT AND IF. THE AGGRESSOR GOES AWAY AND. ENDURING PEACE CAN COME. NORMALIZATION WITH ISRAEL THE. COUNTRIES IN THE REGION WOULD. LIKELY TAKE PLACE. AND CERTAINLY NORMALIZATION. BETWEEN LEBANON AND ISRAEL AND. ALSO POTENTIALLY SERIOUS SERIOUS. PART OF THAT STORY FOR THOSE. WERE STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES BUT. THEY'RE NOT JUST ASPIRATIONAL. THEY ARE INDEED ACHIEVABLE. OBJECTIVES.

AND WHERE ARE WE NOW? ON APRIL THE SEVENTH WE WENT TO. A CEASE-FIRE. THE MISSION IS NOT COMPLETE. WHY THIS CEASE-FIRE? THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ OR SEIZED. AND AS A RESULT OF THAT SHIPPING. AND TRANSITING THROUGH THEM BOTH. ESSENTIALLY OR STOPPED. ALL THE GAS PRICES ROSE. GAS PRICES ARE BEING AFFECTED BY. IT WE HAD A WORSENING SITUATION. ECONOMICALLY AS A RESULT TO WHAT. THE IRANIANS WERE ABLE TO. ACHIEVE. THEY BEGAN THAT ON MARCH THE.

THIRD, APRIL THE SEVENTH WE WENT. TO A CEASE-FIRE BUT AS A RESULT. OF THE CEASE-FIRE THE IRANIANS. INVITED US TO NEGOTIATE TO OPEN. STRAIT OF HORMUZ THAT WAS. INCENTIVE TO GO INTO. NEGOTIATION. WHERE DO WE STAND FOUR MONTHS. LATER? THAT DIPLOMATIC EFFORT HAS NOT. BEEN ACHIEVED FOR THERE IS IN. AGREEMENT, A MEMORANDUM OF. UNDERSTANDING OPENING UP. WE REMOVE THE BLOCKADE, THEY. REMOVE THEIR INTERFERENCE DURING. THE INTERVENTION AND THEY BROKE. THAT IN A MATTER OF DAYS. WE ARE NOW APPLYING AS MUCH.

ECONOMIC PRESSURE AS WE CAN TO. THE REGIME USING A NAVAL. BLOCKADE AND WHAT SECRETARY. BESSENT IS DOING, IS EYE. WATERING IN TERMS OF THE. ECONOMIC THEORY THAT HE IS. CREATING ON THE REGIME. BUT THE TRUTH IS THE IRANIANS. BELIEVED, WE HAVE GOT TO. UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS IN THEIR. HEAD, THEIR HEAD THEY BELIEVE. TOM IS ON THEIR SIDE AND THEY. CAN RIDE THIS OUT DESPITE THE. ECONOMIC SUFFERING OF THEIR. PEOPLE. THAT IS THE POSITION THEY HAVE.

TAKEN. SO THE ECONOMIC PATH IS ONE. THING. NO ONE KNOWS IF THAT IS TRUE OR. NOT. EVEN THE IRANIANS DON'T KNOW IT. IT'S NOT NOBLE AT THIS TIME. WHETHER THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE. WILL ACTUALLY TAKE PLACE AND. THEY'LL BE WILLING TO MAKE A. DEAL THEY'RE NOT WILLING TO MAKE. NOW. HERE'S WHAT WE KNOW. A WHEAT KNOW IF THEY DO MAKE A. DEAL THEY WILL NOT COMPLY WITH. IT. HOW DO WE KNOW THAT? THAT'S WHAT THEY ARTY DID. IT IS UNLIKELY THEY WILL MAKE A. DEAL THEY WILL COMPLY WITH. SECONDLY THEN IT MAKES NO SENSE.

TO GIVE THEM THE FINANCES A DEAL. WOULD DEMAND WHICH WOULD ENABLE. THEM TO RECOVER AND REBUILD. THAT MEANS A SUBSEQUENT. ADMINISTRATION HAS TO DEAL WITH. IS VERY REGIME WE WERE GOING TO. BRING AN EVENTUAL END TOO. THAT.