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Secretary, uh, General, overnight, uh, Iran launched missiles across the Gulf . They managed to, uh, hit the Saudi oil refinery on the Red Sea . What does it mean that they have that capability now 3 weeks uh, into the war ? And, Mr. Secretary, you mentioned civilian infrastructure . Iran seems to be treating uh, US diplomatic outposts, embassies, consulates like they are legitimate, hard targets in the region . Now, um, what is the Pentagon doing to, I guess, secure those assets, stop those attacks ? Absolutely. Uh, thanks for the question on the missile strikes . You know, as we said and have always said clearly , they came into this fight with a lot of weapons . Um, this is why we continue to uh be as aggressive and assertive as we can against their ballistic missile capability , both their medium-range ballistic missile capability uh and their short-range missile capability . So we we are continuing to hunt and find them and kill them . Uh and and we will continue to do so. So they still retain some capability and we have layered defenses throughout the region that will allow us to uh protect those and we're working with our partners across the Gulf region to help them uh improve any defensive capabilities that they may need . To that point on on capabilities, you know, Iran is an energy rich country . Could be should be . Instead, like so many other places driven by a radical ideology , they've spent that money instead of investing in their people . That's why you had millions of Iranians protesting because they felt like their condition quality of life didn't match what it could be or should be . And what was the Iranian state ? There's a reason we come call Iran the number one state sponsor of terrorism because they took the the money they they make and they invested in tunnels and they invested in missiles and they invested in launchers and UAVs and we are destroying and degrading that degrading that in historic proportions but it doesn't mean they won't still have some and try to hold people at issue which is why uh we're we're fighting every single day to continue to compel and you mentioned embassies and consulates uh unlike previous administrations um we are doubling and tripling down on ensuring ing that our people, regardless of their Department of War, Department of State, whatever they do, are secure in those facilities