I said I didn't really have to tell him. He knew that we were approaching a situation where Iran could produce a nuclear weapon. He knew that we were approaching a situation where Iran's ballistic missile capability after Rising Line was going to be reconstructed. And Khamenei wanted to put it underground. The factories underground, not the missiles, the factories underground to produce more and more and more ballistic missiles and to do the same … (17:16–17:23)
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Asserts that Iran was planning to reconstruct its ballistic missile capability after a specific operation.
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