Richard Blumenthal: “Iran's enriched uranium, about a ton of it, which is one of…”

“So if one business thought, I'm just going to keep that 18 cents themselves, they'd lose their gasoline sales. Let me, let me switch topics, sir. Iran's enriched uranium, about a ton of it, which is one of the objectives of, or was of Operation Epic Fury, that is to secure that enriched uranium. How close does that degree of enrichment enable Iranians to develop a nuclear weapon? What amount of time would it take to do it? Frighteningly close.” (03:40–03:57)

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