White House Warns: Iran Has All That It Needs To Achieve A Nuclear Weapon

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At her press briefing, Karoline Leavitt was asked to qualify what President Trump meant when saying that Iran is a "few weeks away" from getting a nuclear weapon.

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00:00share with all of you. Just to follow up on how close Iran is to a nuclear weapon,

00:05can you clarify when the president said a few weeks away, did he mean obtaining enough enriched

00:11uranium to start building a weapon or did he mean Iran is a few weeks away from completing

00:18the production of a weapon? I'm glad you asked that, Ouija. It's an important question and it's

00:23one, frankly, the media has been getting wrong. Let's be very clear. Iran has all that it needs

00:28to achieve a nuclear weapon. All they need is a decision from the supreme leader to do that.

00:34And it would take a couple of weeks to complete the production of that weapon, which would, of

00:38course, pose an existential threat not just to Israel but to the United States and to the entire

00:43world. And that is something that the entire world, including countries like Russia, is in agreement

00:48with, that Iran should not and cannot obtain a nuclear weapon. And that's why the president

00:53believes that and he's believed that, again, not just his political career but, frankly, his entire

00:58life. So it's not like it's the former, just to be clear. But they have the components, okay.

01:02Correct.

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