U.N. Amb. Waltz: Iran’s Enriched Uranium ‘Has to Go’

‘And then their ongoing enrichment’

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WALTZ: “Well, we have to remember, there’s no reason for Iran to have this dust, which is 60 percent highly enriched uranium. There is no country in the world that enriches to that level that doesn’t then have nuclear weapons, because there’s no reason to do it. So that’s one. Number two, there’s no reason if you just have peaceful civilian aims for nuclear enrichment to bury it so deeply in hardened military sites, and then disperse it around the country. So this is the material that would amount to 10 or 11 nuclear weapons that Special Envoy Witkoff has been talking about. And President Trump is clear, it has to go. Where it goes, what we do with it, how we get there, still very much under a negotiation, but that component has to go. And then, their ongoing enrichment, which we’ve devastated in Operation Midnight Hammer last year, but we still see them trying to reconstitute. So those are the two crux issues. And then, of course, the Strait of Hormuz.”

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