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Steve Witkoff: “Offensive ballistic missiles had to be cut back. The…”

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

Witkoff: Iran's foreign minister started yelling and screaming | The Record with Greta Van Susteren

Published March 10, 2026 | Video Starts at 09:13

So it was always a red line for President Trump, and he wanted us to convey it, that missiles, Offensive ballistic missiles had to be cut back. The inventory. They just had too much. and could overwhelm many of the countries in the region. And that made it existential to us. Did he ever let his hair down and say anything personal about Prime Minister Netanyahu, the nation of Israel or President Trump? (09:13–09:18)

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Asserts that [Iran's] offensive ballistic missile inventory needed to be reduced.

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“He acknowledged, even boasted, that they had 460 kilograms of 60% enriched material.”
Witkoff: Iran's foreign minister started yelling and screaming | The Record with Greta Van Susteren | Uploaded March 10, 2026 | 06:06-06:17
“That 60% enriched material is roughly one week to 10 days away from being 90% weapons grade.”
Witkoff: Iran's foreign minister started yelling and screaming | The Record with Greta Van Susteren | Uploaded March 10, 2026 | 06:17-06:26
“He then said, you and I both know that that is roughly 11 bombs worth of material.”
Witkoff: Iran's foreign minister started yelling and screaming | The Record with Greta Van Susteren | Uploaded March 10, 2026 | 06:29-06:36
“We had destroyed most of the Natanz, Fordeau and Isfahan, which of course we did.”
Witkoff: Iran's foreign minister started yelling and screaming | The Record with Greta Van Susteren | Uploaded March 10, 2026 | 07:03-07:10
“Before the first action, Operation Midnight Hammer, I'm pretty sure that I went there six times, Europe and Muscot included.”
Witkoff: Iran's foreign minister started yelling and screaming | The Record with Greta Van Susteren | Uploaded March 10, 2026 | 00:27-00:41
“When the last round of negotiations start, Jared and I visited with them, negotiated with them three separate times.”
Witkoff: Iran's foreign minister started yelling and screaming | The Record with Greta Van Susteren | Uploaded March 10, 2026 | 00:49-00:58
“They claim that they were ready to make concessions, but there was no palpable evidence of it.”
Witkoff: Iran's foreign minister started yelling and screaming | The Record with Greta Van Susteren | Uploaded March 10, 2026 | 01:07-01:15
“In the first meeting that we had with them, they actually opened up that they had the inalienable right to enrich.”
Witkoff: Iran's foreign minister started yelling and screaming | The Record with Greta Van Susteren | Uploaded March 10, 2026 | 01:19-01:28
“We'd like to see you not enriching and we'd be prepared to give you free fuel for at least 10 years, perhaps longer.”
Witkoff: Iran's foreign minister started yelling and screaming | The Record with Greta Van Susteren | Uploaded March 10, 2026 | 02:26-02:36
“Their response was sort of awkward, was we don't, we don't need, we don't need you to do that for us.”
Witkoff: Iran's foreign minister started yelling and screaming | The Record with Greta Van Susteren | Uploaded March 10, 2026 | 02:45-02:52
“He did not have approval to talk directly to us on the telephone.”
Witkoff: Iran's foreign minister started yelling and screaming | The Record with Greta Van Susteren | Uploaded March 10, 2026 | 04:20-04:24
“They manufacture their own nuclear equipment, which is in itself insidious and dangerous.”
Witkoff: Iran's foreign minister started yelling and screaming | The Record with Greta Van Susteren | Uploaded March 10, 2026 | 07:17-07:24
“He could reconstitute even in a small amount and get to take himself to 90% weapons grade.”
Witkoff: Iran's foreign minister started yelling and screaming | The Record with Greta Van Susteren | Uploaded March 10, 2026 | 07:29-07:41
“There was plenty of evidence that he was either positioning towards getting a weapon or had a weapon already.”
Witkoff: Iran's foreign minister started yelling and screaming | The Record with Greta Van Susteren | Uploaded March 10, 2026 | 07:50-08:03
“They refused to talk about the missiles. And that was a red line for us, the missiles.”
Witkoff: Iran's foreign minister started yelling and screaming | The Record with Greta Van Susteren | Uploaded March 10, 2026 | 08:31-08:37
“They were not ready to make a deal. They were not close to being able to make a deal.”
Witkoff: Iran's foreign minister started yelling and screaming | The Record with Greta Van Susteren | Uploaded March 10, 2026 | 10:44-10:49
“There were all kinds of ways that they were looking to circumvent the no enrichment red line.”
Witkoff: Iran's foreign minister started yelling and screaming | The Record with Greta Van Susteren | Uploaded March 10, 2026 | 11:14-11:21
“We have some things to discuss with regard to finishing up the peace deal and the demilitarization of Hamas.”
Witkoff: Iran's foreign minister started yelling and screaming | The Record with Greta Van Susteren | Uploaded March 10, 2026 | 11:55-12:04