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00:00You've been quoted as saying that the world is safer as a result of this Israeli attack on Iran.
00:08Could I just ask you, first of all, what your rationale was for that?
00:12Yes, Tom, thanks for having me on.
00:14Look, it's safer not just as a result of the events of the last 24 hours,
00:19but if we think about the events that have taken place in the region in the last two, two and a half years,
00:25I think it's undoubtedly the case the world is safer.
00:27However, Hezbollah is diminished. Hamas is at risk.
00:31The Houthis in Yemen are struggling.
00:34The regime in Syria has fallen.
00:36The air defense systems in Iran are virtually useless.
00:40And now the Israelis are undertaking an effort to push back the great threat to the region,
00:45which was a nuclear armed Iran capable of leveraging and threatening every country,
00:50not just Israel, but the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates,
00:55everyone with their continued efforts to be the world's largest state sponsor of terror.
01:01And now their capacity to do that is diminished.
01:04And the Iranian people have an opportunity that makes the world a heck of a lot safer, in my judgment.
01:09And now their time is buried.