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Tom Barrett: “Our exclusive effort in this has to be to make sure that…”

Featuring: Tom Barrett, Republican | U.S. House, Michigan, District 7

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Setting Clear Limits on the Iran Conflict | Rep. Barrett on The Lead with Jake Tapper | CNN

Published | Video Starts at 06:09

But that's not our only objective in this. And really that's not our American interest in it. That would be a great outcome if it happens. But really Our exclusive effort in this has to be to make sure that Iran does not develop a nuclear weapon. the way that the North Koreans did in the 1990s, for example, as we set out diplomatic ways to prevent them from doing that. They were secretly developing a nuclear weapon that entire time. (06:09–06:21)

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Asserts that the primary U.S. objective is to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.

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