President Donald Trump’s maximum pressure campaign to stop Iran’s sponsorship of terrorism, as well as preventing the nation from having nuclear weapons, means a return to the policies that worked in the Middle East to achieve peace, national security adviser Mike Waltz said during a CPAC interview Friday.

But first, he told the audience, in a talk shown on Newsmax, that he wanted to “thank God” that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not listen to the Biden administration on its demands about the war.

“As a result of his leadership and Israel’s leadership, Hezbollah and Iran are now decimated,” said Waltz. “The pager, beeper, and walkie-talkie operation is going to go down in history. As a Green Beret, I appreciate a good covert operation. That was one of the greatest ones in history.”

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