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Brian Schatz: “Under the original Iran agreement that President Obama…”

Featuring: Brian Schatz, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Hawaii

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Published | Video Starts at 04:14

If you want to move something through international waters, that is not a w. That is not good for this country or regional stability. Under the original Iran agreement that President Obama signed and Trump later ripped up, Iran promised not to develop a nuclear weapon. It was right there on the first page of the jcpoa. And what it meant was that Iran would not produce the kind of highly enriched uranium that could be used in a nuclear weapon. (04:14–04:23)

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Asserts that the original Iran agreement included a promise from Iran not to develop a nuclear weapon.

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