President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff said Monday that Iranian negotiators openly claimed they possessed enough enriched uranium to build 11 nuclear bombs — and showed no hesitation in saying so.
“Both the Iranian negotiators said to us directly with, you know, no shame, that they controlled 460 kilograms of 60% [enriched uranium],” Witkoff told Fox News host Sean Hannity, “and they’re aware that that could make 11 nuclear bombs, and that was the beginning of their negotiating stance.”
Witkoff and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner held three rounds of indirect talks with Iranian officials beginning Feb. 6 in Oman and concluding Feb. 26 in Geneva, Switzerland.
The discussions were aimed at averting U.S. military action as tensions escalated.
“Jared and I opened up with the Iranian negotiators telling us they had the inalienable right to enrich all their nuclear fuel that they possessed. That’s how they opened up,” Witkoff recounted.
“We, of course, responded that the president feels we have the inalienable right to stop you dead in your tracks,” he continued.
“They then went on to say that beyond the inalienable right to enrich, that that was going to be their starting point. And Jared and I just sort of looked at ourselves flummoxed and said, ‘Well, we’re really in for it now.’”
Witkoff, 68, had already stirred headlines before the Geneva talks when he said Iran was “probably a week away from having industrial-grade bomb-making material.”
On Monday, he elaborated on that assessment.
“I know this: They have 10,000, roughly, kilograms of fissionable material. That’s broken up into roughly 460 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium, another 1,000 kilograms of 20% enriched uranium …They manufacture their own centrifuges to enrich this material. So, there’s almost no stopping them. They have an endless supply of it.
“The 60% material, Sean, can be brought to 90%, that’s weapons-grade, in roughly one week, maybe 10 days at the outside. The 20% can be brought to weapons-grade inside of three to four weeks.”
“They were proud of it,” Witkoff added. “They were proud that they had evaded all sorts of oversight protocols to get to a place where they could deliver 11 nuclear bombs.”
The comments underscore the Trump administration’s long-standing warning that Tehran’s enrichment program presents an urgent and accelerating threat — and highlight the stakes behind the collapsed negotiations.
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