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Published On: Mon, Jul 20th, 2026

Maria Bartiromo: “I Don’t Understand How It Is Possible Iran Still Has The Capability To Fight This Way” If U.S. “Obliterated” Their Military

Fox News “Sunday Morning Futures” host Maria Bartiromo expressed confusion about how Iran continues to attack and kill U.S. bases and troops despite President Trump’s repeated insistence that their military has been “obliterated.”

MARIA BARTIROMO, FOX NEWS: You know, CENTCOM says there will be outsized action in retaliation, but I don’t understand how it is possible that Iran still has the capabilities to fight this way and continue to try to lash out at Gulf countries and U.S. military bases, because the U.S. has obliterated Iran’s military, and the president continues to reiterate that. VICTORIA COATES, HERITAGE FOUNDATION: Yes. And if you look at the number of missiles that they’ve been able to fire off from the beginning of this in late February, early March, and what they’re able to do now, it is very seriously degraded. They’ve gone from over a hundred a day to fewer than 10, if even that. There have been a number of days when they haven’t fired off anything, and they haven’t targeted Israel for months now. So I think their capabilities are lessened, but they’re not zero, and that’s the important thing. They are a nuisance. They’re going after their regional neighbors, and that, in a way, can also, in the long term, be a benefit for us, Maria, because this unites the entire region behind the United States and with Israel. That would have been impossible-


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