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Edward Markey: “The Iranians were at least a year away from getting a…”

Featuring: Edward Markey, Democratic | U.S. Senate Massachusetts

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Senator Markey on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell

Published | Video Starts at 00:44

… needed to go in order to determine whether or not the Iranians were violating the nuclear agreement. And there was no evidence that they were doing so. And in fact, The Iranians were at least a year away from getting a nuclear weapon because of that full scope safeguards program which John Kerry and Barack Obama negotiated. And so when Donald Trump pulled out of that agreement in 2017, he was triggering something that would ultimately result in Donald Trump himself in 2025 saying that he was going to go in to obliterate the nuclear program. (00:44–00:56)

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Asserts that Iran was at least a year away from obtaining a nuclear weapon due to the negotiated safeguards.

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