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Ted Cruz: “They [Iran] said they would not stop enriching no matter…”

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Sen. Cruz: "Most IMPORTANT decision of Trump's Presidency."

Published March 1, 2026 | Video Starts at 01:45

Because the diplomacy was an abject failure. The Iranians approached the diplomacy with arrogance, which with absolute hubris. They [Iran] said they would not stop enriching no matter what, they were going to continue to enrich uranium. They would not discuss zero enrichment. They claimed a right to enrich uranium in underground bunkers with no supervision. As President Trump said on Friday when he was with me in Texas, his line was zero enrichments. (01:45–03:41)

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Asserts that Iran refused to stop enriching uranium.

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