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Pete Hegseth: “Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, never full stop.”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Published | Video Starts at 02:28

Will the U.S. troops come back home? Will those two aircraft carriers be pulled back? Well, what, Margaret, what I would say the president's been most clear about is that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, never full stop. And this deal, as we talk about aspects of the deal, some of which have come out publicly are totally wrong. It is, it's performance based. (02:28–02:33)

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Asserts that the U.S. policy is to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

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