00:00Can I follow up on that? You said in your opening, just to Tara's first question, or I guess the second question that you answered first, you said in your opening that this led to the obliteration of Iran's nuclear ambitions.
00:11And I wonder if the assessment is not just that you're citing is not that the program was degraded, but that Iran no longer has the ambition to even create a nuclear weapon.
00:20Is there an intelligence or assessment that says that?
00:23Well, I mean, we believe that sending bombers from Missouri 37 hours on a mission, not a single shot fired at them, took a very strong psychological toll on Iranian leadership.
00:36We also believe that the degradation of the facilities at Fordow, Estefan and Antez degraded their physical capability of constructing a bomb.
00:45And it's not just it's not just enriched uranium or centrifuges or things like that.
00:50We destroyed the components that they would need to build a bomb.
00:54And so when you take that constellation of different things into consideration, yeah, we believe that Iran's nuclear capability has been severely degraded, perhaps even their ambition to build a bomb.
01:05I mean, ultimately, the president has said he's not going to allow them to build a bomb.
01:08The Israelis are not going to allow them to have a bomb, and they know that.
01:11And I think that factors into factors into their decision making process.
01:15Is that a final assessment that you that you're citing there, or is there still more information coming?
01:19The assessments are ongoing, and every day that goes by, the intelligence picture that we have gets clearer and clearer.
01:24And as we get those updates, Courtney, we'll keep you updated.
