Mark Dubowitz
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And that enrichment facility will create fuel rods for your nuclear reactors.
So that was the offer presented to Iran.
And that offer would come with significant sanctions relief,
billions of dollars that would go to the regime.
Obviously, the economy there has been suffering.
The regime has not had the resources that it's had in the past to fund what I call its axis of misery, its proxy terror armies around the world.
And it was a good offer.
And I was shocked that Khamenei rejected it.
He did reject it.
And I think he rejected it because I think he believed that he could continue to do to President Trump what he had done to President Obama, which is just continue to squeeze and squeeze and squeeze the Americans at the table in order to ensure that he could keep all these nuclear facilities, all these nuclear capabilities, so that at a time of his choosing, when President Trump is gone, he can develop nuclear weapons.
Now, it is a bit interesting to say that Iran has no intention to develop nuclear weapons.
Let's examine the nuclear program and ask, does this sound like a regime that's not interested in building nuclear weapons?
So they built deeply buried underground enrichment facilities that they hid from the international community and they didn't disclose.
They had an active nuclear warhead program called Ahmad, which ended in 2003 formally when the United States invaded Iraq.
And we know that because not only has that been detailed by the IAEA, but actually Mossad in a daring operation in Tehran took out a nuclear archive and brought it back to the West.
And then the IAEA, the United States and the intelligence communities went after this detailed
went into it and discovered that this Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, had an active program to build five atomic warheads and was a very detailed program with blueprints and designs, all of which was designed under Ahmad to build a nuclear weapons program.
So again, it's interesting to say that he doesn't have the intention to build nuclear weapons when he actually had an active nuclear weapons program.
And we can talk about what happened to that program after 2003, and there's a lot of interesting details.
So when you combine the fact that he has an active nuclear weapons program