In the recent video from 26:29, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff revealed at a White House Cabinet meeting that Iranian government negotiators had directly and explicitly disclosed to the American diplomatic team that Iran possessed 460 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium — sufficient by the regime’s own accounting to construct 11 nuclear weapons — a confession that Witkoff said demonstrated the absolute necessity of Operation Epic Fury.
“They possessed enough 60% enriched material — 460 kilograms — to make 11 atomic bombs,” Witkoff said. “And they told us directly.”
Witkoff described the disclosure as one of several incontrovertible signs during pre-conflict diplomatic talks that Iran’s negotiating team had no authority to make the concessions President Trump required, and that the regime was fundamentally unwilling to abandon its nuclear ambitions through diplomatic means.
The full list of American demands, Witkoff explained, included no enrichment of any kind, no pathway to weaponization, decommissioning of the Fordow and Isfahan enrichment facilities, no stockpiling of enriched material, transfer of all existing enriched uranium to American custody, and a significant rollback of Iran’s missile program. Iran’s response to every item on that list was rejection.
“The Iranians told us they have the inalienable right to enrich,” Witkoff said. Beyond the enrichment disclosure, Iranian officials delivered what Witkoff described as perhaps the most revealing statement of the entire pre-war negotiating period: that they would not give up diplomatically what they could not be defeated militarily.
“In other words, they were again miscalculating the success of Operation Midnight Hammer, which was a total success,” Witkoff said.
President Trump elaborated on the nuclear timeline, telling the Cabinet that American intelligence had assessed Iran was between two and four weeks away from completing its first operational nuclear device at the time the B2 strikes were executed. “They would have had a nuclear weapon within two weeks, maybe four,” Trump said. “And they would have used it. Guaranteed.”
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth noted that the factories and underground facilities that had housed Iran’s enrichment program had been built in significant part using funds from the Obama-era Iran nuclear deal. “Many of the Iranian military factories and bases that we’re systematically destroying were paid for by the pallets of American cash that Barack Obama flew into Tehran,” Hegseth said.
Witkoff confirmed that following the military campaign, Iran had now signaled through Pakistani intermediaries a genuine desire to negotiate on the basis of the 15-point American peace framework. He reported positive and substantive engagement, though he was careful not to characterize the outcome as certain.
“If we can convince Iran that this is the inflection point with no good alternatives other than more death and destruction, we have strong signs this is a possibility,” Witkoff said. He closed with the message his team had delivered to Iranian interlocutors directly: “Don’t miscalculate again.” Read_More…