Senator says Iran must dismantle all enrichment to avoid nuclear path
A US senator warned that any deal with Iran must require full dismantlement of its nuclear program, including a complete ban on uranium enrichment.
“If Iran has any centrifuges, if it enriches uranium at any level, that means it can enrich it up to weapons grade,” Tom Cotton said in an interview, calling enrichment a red line echoed by Trump envoy Steve Witkoff.
Cotton dismissed Iran’s reported proposal for a regional enrichment consortium as likely insincere, citing Tehran’s refusal to abandon enrichment as evidence of weapons intent. “They don’t really care that much about civilian nuclear power,” he said.
“It's not just Iran's enrichment and their nuclear weapons, it's their other actions as well. They have a missile program that might be able to reach the United States in just a few years. So this is not just a problem for the Middle East, and they support terrorists throughout the regions like Hamas and Hezbollah.”
He warned that decisions are imminent and that President Trump remains committed to preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. “This is coming to a head,” Cotton said.

"UAE and a couple other dozen countries around the nation, they have civilian nuclear power, and they don't enrich uranium. They buy it in ways that are safe and verifiable and can't be reprocessed into weapons. So let's see what Iran has to say about that. That's one of the things that Steve Witkoff is putting to them as a question."
He said he suspects Iran will, as in the past, try to delay and prolong negotiations to preserve its path toward a nuclear weapon. “But as President Trump said again just yesterday, we’ll never allow Iran to have a nuclear weapons program,” Cotton added.









