He thought they were jerking him around. And this is not my argument. But I want to present the argument that I think the administration would, which, which is that This was a developing nuclear force behind a conventional envelope of firepower that would have allowed Iran to basically be North Korea, but with more money, more ambition for malign influence. And yeah, occasionally you've just got to go kill a bunch of people in Iran, bomb the country, throw the government into either fear or chaos or alteration of something … (05:10–05:29)
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Asserts that Iran was developing a nuclear force similar to North Korea, but with more resources and ambitions.
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