Newsmax host: “If a few bridges are lost in the process of liberating a country of 90 million people, I sincerely doubt most Iranians would mind at all”
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From the April 6, 2026, edition of Newsmax's Rob Schmitt Tonight
ROB SCHMITT (HOST): And as the administration celebrates this incredible and very important save, today, during that same news conference, reporters hounded the president about his threat to attack infrastructure and that tweet that we talked about at the top of the show. The claim is that this would amount to an attack on the innocent people of Iran when these threats that the president is making are obviously designed to further cripple the regime that has been torturing the people of Iran for nearly 50 years. The media refuses to acknowledge that the people of this country have had their spirits robbed by a ruthless jihadist regime for decades, which is now being hammered for refusing to give up its nuclear agenda, which threatens the United States and the world. The people are benefiting from Iran's defiance against the West. They finally roused us up enough to do something about it, as they've threatened the West with nuclear weapons.
We're trying to dismantle an Islamic terrorist regime that claims to have enough uranium for multiple nuclear weapons. That's what they told Steve Witkoff at the outset of the negotiations. And the media is looking for any reason to try and complain about this, including assuming the feelings of citizens in a country that none of these people have ever been to. The vast majority of Iranians want the regime ousted. They want them hung. And if a few bridges are lost in the process of liberating a country of 90 million people, I sincerely doubt most Iranians would mind at all.