Top US Diplomat Reveals Exactly Why Iran Was Attacked. ‘They Boasted…’

New Delhi:

The joint US-Israel attack on Iran was triggered by Tehran insisting on an ‘inalienable right to enrich its nuclear fuel’ and claiming it had ‘evaded oversight protocols’ to amass 460kg – likely enough to build 11 nuclear bombs – Special Envoy Steve Witkoff told Fox News Monday.

Witkoff said the US sought three outcomes from talks in Geneva last month – shuttering of Tehran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programme, withdrawal of support for military proxies like Hezbollah, and the elimination of its naval forces “so we can have freedom of the seas”.

Iranian negotiators, however, ‘made it clear to us their goal is to maintain enrichment for purpose of armament’, he said. “The Iranians told us directly, and without shame, that they have 460kg of uranium enriched to 60 per cent. They were aware they could make 11 nuclear bombs.”

“We responded that the President (Donald Trump) feels we have the inalienable right to stop you dead in your tracks,” Witkoff declared, as quoted by Israeli publication The Times of Israel.