Top US Negotiator Steve Witkoff Says Iranian Officials Claimed to Have Enough Enriched Uranium To Build 11 Nuclear Bombs
Iran has what it takes to make almost a dozen nukes, according to the top US Envoy.
A billionaire real estate investor and developer, Steve Witkoff, has turned into Donald J. Trump’s ‘jack of all trades’ when it comes to tough geopolitical negotiations.
Be it the never-ending Russia-Ukraine talks, the successful Israel-Gaza peace deal, or lately the negotiations with Iran, Witkoff (often alongside Jared Kushner) has been the face of Trump’s shuttle diplomacy.
Yesterday, Witkoff said to Fox News’ Sean Hannity that Iranian officials told the US negotiators: they have enough enriched uranium to build not one, but 11 nuclear bombs.
Wow. Steve Witkoff:
“In that first meeting, the Iranian negotiators said to us, with no shame, they controlled 460 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium and they’re aware that that could make 11 nuclear bombs.”
— Buzz Patterson (@BuzzPatterson) March 3, 2026
The New York Post reported:
“’Both the Iranian negotiators said to us directly with, you know, no shame, that they controlled 460 kilograms of 60% [enriched uranium]’, Steve 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 engaged in three rounds of indirect talks beginning in Oman Feb. 6 and concluding in Geneva, Switzerland Feb. 26 in what turned out to be a last-ditch effort to prevent US military action against Iran.
‘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.”
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— BRICS News (@BRICSinfo) March 3, 2026
The US negotiators warned that Trump had the inalienable right to ‘stop [them] dead in [their] tracks’.
“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% materials, 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.”
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