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Mike Rounds: “It would not have taken them more than a few weeks to move…”

Featuring: Mike Rounds, Republican | U.S. Senate South Dakota

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Rounds Talks Warsh Vote, Iran on CNBC's Squawk Box

Published | Video Starts at 04:11

… created and what they were doing, look, they were moving forward with full plans to be able to very quickly create a nuclear weapon. They've got the enriched uranium there. It would not have taken them more than a few weeks to move it from enriched uranium to weapons grade uranium. They were creating intercontinental, they were creating ballistic missiles with not just short but also medium range and working towards longer range capabilities on their missiles. We know that already. (04:11–04:20)

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Asserts that Iran could convert enriched uranium to weapons-grade uranium in a few weeks.

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