A senior military official acknowledged to lawmakers on Thursday that while the U.S. military has significantly degraded Iran’s military capabilities, its forces still remain a threat, particularly in the Strait of Hormuz.

Adm. Brad Cooper, the commander of U.S. Central Command, told lawmakers on the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday that the U.S. and Israeli militaries have “significantly degraded” Iran’s military capabilities and that Iranian forces “no longer threaten regional partners or the United States in ways that they were able to do before.”