Mark Dubowitz

He has sites that are buried deep underground.

He has weapons scientists who come out of the Ahmad program and continue to work on the initial metallurgy work and computer modeling designed to actually begin that process of building a warhead.

And all of this has been hidden from the international community.

He has spent estimates of a half a trillion dollars on his nuclear program.

in direct costs and in sanctions costs.

And one has to ask, and I think it's an interesting question, to compare the UAE and Iran.

The UAE signed the gold standard.

They said we'll have no enrichment capability or reprocessing.

They spent about $20 billion on that, and it supplies 25% of their electrical generation.

Khamenei spent...

a half a trillion dollars, and that program supplies maybe 3% of their electrical needs.

In fact, they have a reactor that they bought from the Russians called Boucher, and that reactor, it's exactly what you'd want in a proliferation-proof reactor.

They buy fuel rods from the Russians, they use it, and they send the spent fuel back to Russia so it cannot be reprocessed into plutonium.

So

I just think it's important for your listeners to understand just some of the technical nuclear history here in order to unpack this question of, did Khamenei want nuclear weapons?

What was his goal here?

And then we can talk about, was this the right operation in order for the United States to

order the B-2 bombers to strike these facilities in what, again, was a limited operation, as President Trump has said, and in order to drive the Iranians back to the negotiating table and finally do the deal that President Trump has asked them to do since he came into office in January.

I mean, really, everything?

There was not one thing I said that was true?