We literally killed his dad. So why would he not try to hide and potentially try to more importantly, get a nuclear weapon as fast as possible? So We may have at least prevented for a little bit [Iran] getting a nuclear weapon, even though they weren't close to doing that to begin with, according to our intel. But now these guys are definitely motivated to go get one, because if they had one, we probably would not have attacked. So what we ended up replacing was in Iran that is now more emboldened. (06:06–06:15)
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Asserts that Iran was not close to developing a nuclear weapon according to intelligence.
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