During a State Department press briefing, Spokesperson Tammy Bruce was asked about US talks with Iran in pursuit of a potential deal to limit Iran's nuclear capabilities.
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00:00Hi. Thank you very much, Tammy. Let me follow up on the Saturday meeting.
00:04Yes.
00:04Because when they left the last meetings, initially Ambassador Witkoff said that the U.S. would agree to no dismantling, but then it was clarified.
00:16Would agree to what? I'm sorry.
00:17To not require Iran to dismantle everything that they had.
00:22The Iranian position has been, according to my best understanding, that they want to retain enough for a peaceful nuclear power, for a civilian program with verification under the NPT, and are willing to give up what they had broken out to 60 percent in the last couple of years, alarming the U.S. and other areas in the rest of the world.
00:52But the position now is that they are saying, apparently, that they will not totally dismantle any nuclear program.
01:03Is the U.S. position that they have to dismantle even what would be verifiably proved to be a peaceful, low-level enrichment of nuclear power?
01:15And I had one other question to ask you.
01:17Let me answer that one.
01:18Well, it's fresh, and then I will definitely stay with you.
01:21I'm not going to say, I won't scoot, I promise.
01:23But this is important because, and I, because I, I do, I understand, it's an important question.
01:28But that is, of course, if we were going to be negotiating through our conversations, or on television, or anywhere else, we wouldn't need to be going to Rome on Saturday.
01:40Those are issues that I'm, I suppose some would want to have be in the media or discussed publicly, but that's not, that's not the nature of what the negotiations are.
01:51That's not a reflection of what we'll –
01:52The U.S. position has been that they have to totally dismantle.
01:55Is that still the U.S. position?
01:56That's been the public position.
01:57The, the, right, the bright, the bright red line is that Iran will not have a nuclear weapon.
02:04That is unacceptable.
02:05That's been President Trump's statement from the start.
02:10Now, one could ask if you need enriched uranium at 60 percent for a peaceful program.
02:16I, I'm, I'm not in those negotiations, I don't know what questions will be asked, but that is the bright red line, and that's going to be discussed in private between the people who are assigned to have that conversation, and if there's anything, we know it's what is acceptable and not acceptable to President Trump, and that, that position has been clear.
02:39Yes, ma'am.
02:40But at a much lower level, something 5 percent plus, they, the question was whether they have to give up all uranium, which has been, which has been, which has been, which has been, which has been, which has been, if we were in Rome and having lunch, we could have the conversation.
02:58I will, certainly will not at all presume what diplomatic conversations, or now, what might be negotiations.
03:07I'm not going to presume about them, or comment, or have an opinion.
03:11You had a second part.
03:12Second.