House hearing suggests bipartisan support for strikes on Iran if Tehran won’t end nuclear program

Norman Roule, a senior advisor at United Against Nuclear Iran, warned that Iran has the capability to produce enough weapons-grade uranium for a nuclear weapon in about a week, that its current stockpile is sufficient for seven nuclear weapons and that it may be able to produce enough nuclear material for ten weapons in a month. “Iran has pretty much everything it needs to complete those last steps for its nuclear program,” Roule said. “Unfortunately, the can has been kicked down the road for many years, and we’re at the end of the road. So it’s up to the Iranians to take those last steps, and they either come to a deal or they must face a military response.”

Roule agreed with Stroul that Congress should begin discussing the potential role the military could play in countering Iran, including in dismantling its Quds Force and proxies throughout the region. Claire Jungman, the chief of staff at UANI, added that the U.S. should look at targeting Iran’s cryptocurrency assets, which she said constitute a comparatively small but growing financial lifeline to the regime.