Mark Kelly: I Would Like to See Iran’s Nuclear Capability to Be Completely Disarmed

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KELLY: “I mean, you know, I would like to see Iran’s nuclear capability to be completely disarmed. It is a tough problem. You would have to hit those facilities, the underground facilities with GBU-57s, you know, the Massive Ordnance Penetrator. It’s a 5,000-pound weapon. The Israelis, not only do they not have the weapon, they don’t have the ability to deliver it, even if they did have it, you know, at this point. So, Anderson, this is a complicated problem. I think it’s going to be hard. Even once you try to strike something that’s underground, they can rebuild it. You know, my view on this is ultimately, if you wanted to completely eliminate the ability for them to get to, someday down the line, get to a nuclear weapon, you’d have to remove the Uranium-235, the uranium hexafluoride gas, which is what you first put into the centrifuges. You’d have to destroy all the centrifuges. That would take a capability that, in my view, the Israelis currently do not have. I don’t want to see this escalate. I think maybe there’s a scenario, you know, here in the next couple of days, or maybe in a week or so, that the Iranians would agree to come to some sort of negotiated settlement to get us back to a point where they are not going to continue to develop a nuclear weapon, and we can do it in a way that’s verifiable.”