This blog is dedicated to anyone who still wonders what might have caused President Trump to act against Iran.
Steve Witkoff is our special envoy to the Middle East. Here, according to Mr. Witkoff, is what Iran’s “negotiators” told him/threatened us with, right from the outset:
“In that first meeting, both the Iranian negotiators said to us, directly, with, you know, no shame, that they controlled 460 kilograms of 60%, and they’re aware that that could make 11 nuclear bombs, and that was the beginning of their negotiating stance. So they were proud of it — they were proud that they had evaded all sorts of oversight protocols to get to a place where they could deliver 11 nuclear bombs.
“Jared (Kushner) and I opened up with the Iranian negotiators telling us they had the inalienable right to enrich all their nuclear fuel that they possessed. That’s how they opened up. We, of course, responded that the president feels we have the inalienable right to stop you dead in your tracks.
“I know this: They have 10,000, roughly, kilograms of fissionable material. That’s broken up into roughly 460 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium, another 1,000 kilograms of 20% enriched uranium … They manufacture their own centrifuges to enrich this material. So, there’s almost no stopping them. They have an endless supply of it.”
Any questions?
