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Steve Witkoff: “There was plenty of evidence that he was either positioning…”

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

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

Published | Video Starts at 07:50

And it was, it wasn't, you know, it was curious to us why he would say that he was almost warning us that he might in fact have a weapon. So when people say there was no evidence of a weapon, There was plenty of evidence that he was either positioning towards getting a weapon or had a weapon already. or had a plan to get it a weapon. It seems, it seems to me from the outside, I don't mean to oversimplify it, but that the United States put its cards on the table as to what the red line was. (07:50–08:03)

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Asserts that there was evidence [Iran] was positioning towards or already had a nuclear weapon.

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