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Bill Foster: “I am a physicist, and I have spent I don't know how many hours getting classified briefings on the breakout time for…”

On the recordOctober 24, 2023
I am a physicist, and I have spent I don't know how many hours getting classified briefings on the breakout time for Iran under that deal, and it was my opinion, as a physicist who understands this technology, that it was an incredible blunder by the previous Administration to tear up the JCPOA.
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Bill Foster
Democratic · Illinois

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Foster criticizes the previous administration's withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal.

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