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Marco Rubio: “The only reason to have 60% enriched uranium is to turn it…”

Featuring: Marco Rubio, Republican | Secretary of State, United States | National

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So it would have to deal with that question and it would have to deal with the highly enriched uranium that they currently are in possession of. There's no reason to have. The only reason to have 60% enriched uranium is to turn it into 90% enriched uranium and put it into a weapon. So those remain. And on the sponsor of terrorism. Absolutely. To the point where I would argue, for example, it's one of the interesting things that's happening. (02:57–03:03)

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Asserts that 60% enriched uranium is intended to be further enriched to 90% for weaponization.

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