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Steve Witkoff: “Iranian negotiators told us they had the inalienable right…”

Featuring: Steve Witkoff, Republican | U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East | National

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Iran thought they could strong-arm us: Steve Witkoff

Published | Video Starts at 01:09

So just to give you a little bit of a taste for how these three, three days of negotiations went, three separate times, Jared and I opened up with the Iranian negotiators told us they had the inalienable right to enrich all their nuclear fuel. that they possessed. That's how they opened up. We, of course, responded that the President feels we have the inalienable right to stop you dead in your tracks. (01:09–01:29)

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Asserts that Iranian negotiators claimed an inalienable right to enrich nuclear fuel.

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