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Mark Kelly: “They were enriching uranium...up 60%. You needed way above…”

Featuring: Mark Kelly, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Arizona

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Senator Mark Kelly Discusses U.S. Military Actions and Iran Relations on Meet the Press

Published | Video Starts at 02:51

And it's a changing picture. But what I will say is, as far as we know, the Iranians were not in the process of developing a weapon. They were enriching uranium...up 60%. You needed way above 90% to actually have weapons grade. weapons grade. But it was more than what they would need for power generation. So they were, in the process, they were doing something we did not want them to do. (02:51–03:02)

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Asserts that Iran was enriching uranium up to 60%, below weapons-grade level.

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