european countries and one to japan. but the real big issue is china because china is iran s largest oil cust her and largest investor in the oil patch and biggest trading partner. if we can t get the chinese to reduce oil purchases, we should not give a waiver to china. if we don t, the iranians are going to sit up and take notice and say the u.s. does have will. shannon: and we got information from a report showing that iran is enriching uranium at a higher level than people expected. it goes beyond my understanding beyond what they would use for a power plant and inching closer to weaponnize the material. they say it was an accident, a routine technical error. what s your take? you know, this is the second time that the iranians have been caught with highly enriched uranium. the first time was in 2003, when they found particles enriched to 90%. iran is a nuclear criminal.
i want to ask but iran today, as well. word coming that the levels of enriched uranium there appear to be higher than ever before, suggesting they are moving toward something that might be getting them able to weaponnize. they say that they accidentally over-upgraded or enriched their uranium. there is plenty of skepticism. i would imagine you are skeptical about that explanation. it s hard to say. we don t have enough information as to why it turned out to be at the 27% level. there is nothing magical about that level, by the way. it could be there there is a quote/unquote innocent explanation. but let s want lose sight of the forest for this individual tree here. there is absolutely no doubt there is no other way to explain the whole range of activity iran is engaged in for 20 years, if not more, than that they are seeking a nuclear weapons
i want to ask but iran today, as well. word coming that the levels of enriched uranium there appear to be higher than ever before, suggesting they are moving toward something that might be getting them able to weaponnize. they say that they accidentally over-upgraded or enriched their uranium. there is plenty of skepticism. i would imagine you are skeptical about that explanation. it s hard to say. we don t have enough information as to why it turned out to be at the 27% level. there is nothing magical about that level, by the way. it could be there there is a quote/unquote innocent explanation. but let s want lose sight of the forest for this individual tree here. there is absolutely no doubt there is no other way to explain the whole range of activity iran is engaged in for 20 years, if not more, than that they are seeking a nuclear weapons
then you have afghanistan, and iraq drawing down troops which in the region that sends a bad message. israel is not just afraid of morality and ethics from iran. that is not what the danger is. charles? what is important is the weaponnization part. to build a nuke you have enrich, number one. you to have a divery system. iranian work on. you have to weaponnize. you have to find a way to make bomb adaptable. so it can only be explained if iran is trying to weaponnize. only weaponnizing if it s pursued in the nuke. we had our own intelligence in 2007. it said it was obvious at the time it was erroneous that they stopped the weapo
get tougher. then you have afghanistan, and iraq drawing down troops which in the region that sends a bad message. israel is not just afraid of morality and ethics from iran. that is not what the danger is. charles? what is important is the weaponnization part. to build a nuke you have enrich, number one. you to have a delery system. iranian work on. you have to weaponnize. you have to find a way to make bomb adaptable. so it can only be explained if iran is trying to weaponnize. only weaponnizing if it s pursued in the nuke. we had our own intelligence in 2007. it said it was obvious at the time it was erroneous that they stopped the weapo