Dem Rep. Adam Smith: The Strike on Iran ‘Not Necessarily a Death Blow’ to Their Nuclear Program

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SMITH: “Now, President Trump, in his typical fashion, you know, claims facts not in evidence, saying we totally obliterated their whole program. Nobody knows that right now. Maybe. Maybe not. We do not know how many of these centrifuges were destroyed. So that’s number one. Number two, we can’t be 100% sure that we knew about all of Iran’s centrifuges. We didn’t know about Fordo for about a decade before we discovered it. And number three, no one has talked about, well, how quickly could Iran reconstitute all of this? It sadly does not take that long to build centrifuges once you know how. So it’s not necessarily the death blow to Iran’s nuclear program. We’re still going to have to negotiate with them at some point. So, you know, this assumption that their nuclear program is gone and they’ll never be able to build it is simply wrong at this point.”