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Question from one of our multinational partners. Im from the british embassy. Just following on from a point you made that and with the recent events in europe and the repositioning of some of your armored combat teams back to europe, are you confident that under the Restructuring Initiative that youve got the right assets or enough assets within europe or john, you want to take the first one . I think we spend a lot of time talking to our rsccs around the world. Army service sorry. Army Service Component commands. And sorry, with the acronym soup here. We were talking about pegs earlier. Great record on that. So we stay closely tied, and the aviation Restructuring Initiative is about adding capability, increasing capability even though were going to have less structure because it is the best step. ....
General, thanks for your time this morning. I was hoping you could clarify how air strikes are being conducted without any jtax on the ground in most cases and also how you assess civilian casualties in most cases, if at all . Let me start with civilian casualty piece. You know, the coalition is really very deliberate about how it conducts strikes out there. And we have some great capability in terms of precision. Whats in the balance here if youre not careful is you can be precisely wrong. You could strike, you know, tribe, you could strike Iraqi Security forces and you could create a very bad situation. To date weve got a very good record. Im tracking no civilian casualties where we just if we even suspected civilian casualties, we would immediately direct investigation, determine the cause and then seek to understand the lessons is learned from that and apply those lessons learned. So thats the civilian casualty piece of this. ....
That, too bad. They are not too. They are not interested in Oil Prices Going too low. We are looking for opportunities to diversify our operation with iran and will continue to do so. We have had success and some failures. We are cultivating and machinery construction, etc. , besides the oil and gas sector, but the contract you mentioned, we wanted to implement it. You are incorrect when you say no one is responsible, the minister for energy has had multiple visits to iran and invited partners here. It was a difficult process to look for a compromise and solution and a solution has been found. The calculation is very difficult there. There is a whole range of problems but on the whole we have solved it. It needs will from both sides. The contracts need to be beneficial for everyone because not the government will be selling the iran oil. The companies will do that. We have to make the contracts beneficial for them. We are intere ....