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01 / evaluation
“The reason why they haven’t been able to cobble together an atom bomb in this 1940s technology is because they have not tried to.”
02 / evaluation
“I’m just citing the Reuters news agency saying that this proactive action by Israel caused a negative reaction by your own lights, a very negative reaction in their beginning to again enrich up to 60% uranium. That means I’m just spinning for the Ayatollah or I believe that no one ever does anything except in reaction to Israel and America, except that I’m just citing specific examples of where that’s exactly the case.”
03 / evaluation
“” I think that he really could have, and I already said, I don’t know the details, but I believe Mark when he says that the Europeans were being intransigent on that.”
04 / evaluation
“That doesn’t mean that they are trying to get nukes. It does mean, as I already said, that they wanted to prove to the world that they know how to enrich uranium and that they have facilities buried deeply enough where, if we attack them, that would incentivize them to making nukes, and then we might be unable to stop them without going all the way toward a regime change, which they’re bluffing, basically betting, that we won’t go that far, considering how gigantic their country is and how mountainous and populous it is compared to Iraq next door.”
05 / evaluation
“Their posture has been heavily implied, “Don’t attack us and we won’t make a nuke.”
06 / evaluation
“Under the JCPOA, they shipped out every bit of their enriched uranium to France to be turned into fuel rods and then ship back into the country to be used in their reactors, and so they’re just trying to get us back in that deal. It is an illusion and I don’t know exactly what’s in this man’s mind, but it’s just not true that they’re making nuclear weapons, and it has been a lie of Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party regime, and for that matter, the Khatima regime of Ehud Olmert before him that this is a threat that has to be preempted when in fact it never was anything more than a latent nuclear deterrent.”
07 / evaluation
“That’s not the same as racing to the bomb. That’s why Marco Rubio says, “Never mind the intelligence,” because the intelligence says what I just said.”
08 / evaluation
“The Iranians had announced to the IAEA that we had built a new facility here, and we are going to introduce nuclear material into it within six months.”