Under Secretary of Defense Nominee: A Nuclear-Armed Iran Is an ‘Existential’ Threat to the United States

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COTTON: “And to be clear about why this is so important to us, to the United States, not just to Israel or our Arab friends, why President Trump says Iran, a nuclear Iran, is an existential danger to us, you agree that it's an existential danger, not just a severe danger, as you said in response to Senator Gillibrand, or significant one, as you said in your written answers?”
COLBY: “Yes, a nuclear-armed Iran, especially, senator, given that they -- as we've discussed, that they've looked into or we know they've worked on ICBM range capabilities and other kinds of capabilities that would pose an existential danger to the United States.”