Was Iran on the verge of getting a nuclear weapon? No, they weren't. You know, three weeks ago, and this. This started. And they weren't in June either. I mean, The Iranians have had a religious ruling, a fatwa against actually developing a nuclear weapon since 2004. That's been in place since 2004. That's available in the public sphere. But then also, we had no intelligence to indicate that that fatwa was being disobeyed or it was on the cusp of being lifted. (30:40–30:47)
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