Asked about the IRGC rearming behind the blockade, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth says that Tehran’s industrial base has been severely impacted and that they can attempt to rearm, but they will not be successful.
“As far as the blockade is concerned, it’s been ironclad. Nothing has gotten through. When you can’t fund your energy economy, you have to make very difficult choices,” he tells reporters at a press conference.
“When you combine that with almost no defence-industrial base, a limited nuclear-industrial base and the damage that was done before that, their ability to reconstitute is much less than ours.”
