President Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff said that Iran claimed it had enough enriched uranium to make 11 nuclear bombs before the U.S. and Israel launched an attack on the country over the weekend.

Witkoff told Fox News' Sean Hannity on Monday that Iran's negotiators had said to him and Mr. Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, before the strikes that the country controlled roughly 460 kilograms of uranium at 60% enrichment. Witkoff said that the uranium could have been enriched to the weapons-grade level of 90% within a week to 10 days.

"Both the Iranian negotiators said to us, directly, with, you know, no shame, that they controlled 460 kilograms of 60%, and they're aware that that could make 11 nuclear bombs, and that was the beginning of their negotiating stance," Witkoff told Fox News.

The Wall Street Journal reported over the weekend that Iran's three main nuclear sites were believed to hold enough enriched uranium to fuel around 12 nuclear bombs.

The Wall Street Journal reported early last year, citing a confidential United Nations report, that Iran had increased its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, giving it enough to produce six nuclear weapons. By last summer, Iran could produce enough highly enriched uranium for 19 nuclear weapons within three months, the Journal reported, citing the president of the Institute for Science and International Security David Albright.

The number of potential nuclear weapons available to Iran isn't exactly new. The head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Rafael Grossi, used a similar number in an interview with the Associated Press in October.

"In theory, with this amount of material, there would be a possibility to manufacture around 10 nuclear weapons, but that doesn't mean that Iran has them," Grossi told the AP. "I repeat, that doesn't mean that Iran has them."

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