<p>Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Marco Rubio delivered a stern retort on Sunday to CBS News journalist Margaret Brennan after she pressed him on whether the United States lacked intelligence on Iran&#8217;s supreme leader ordering weaponization of its nuclear program.</p>
<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s irrelevant,&#8221; Rubio declared in a &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; interview conducted after President Donald Trump ordered strikes on three of Tehran&#8217;s nuclear facilities this weekend to prevent the Iranian regime from obtaining nuclear weapons.</p>
<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter that the order was given. They have everything they need to build nuclear weapons. Why would you bury things in a mountain, 300 feet under the ground? Why do they have 60% enriched uranium? You don&#8217;t need 60% enriched uranium. The only countries in the world that have uranium at 60% are countries that have nuclear weapons because they can quickly make it 90,&#8221; Rubio said.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">MUST WATCH: <a href="https://twitter.com/SecRubio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SecRubio</a> schools Margaret Brennan on the Iranian regime&#8217;s nuclear program.</p>
<p>&#8220;Why do they have 60% enriched uranium? &#8230; The only countries in the world that have uranium at 60% are countries that have nuclear weapons because they can quickly make it 90%!&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/XO8ol5jBIn">pic.twitter.com/XO8ol5jBIn</a></p>
<p>— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1936797923267809774?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 22, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>He continued: They have all the elements — why do they have a space program? Is Iran going to go to the moon? No. They&#8217;re trying to build an ICBM [intercontinental ballistic missile] so they could one day put a warhead on it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Brennan said that is a question of intent and claimed that an intelligence assessment found that Iran wanted to be a &#8220;threshold state&#8221; and use its leverage.</p>
<p>&#8220;How do you know what the intelligence assessment says?&#8221; Rubio asked.</p>
<p>After Brennan insisted that information came from an intelligence assessment in March, Rubio shot back.</p>
<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s an inaccurate representation of it. That&#8217;s not how our intelligence is read. That&#8217;s not how intelligence is used. Here&#8217;s what the whole world knows — forget about intelligence — what the IAEA knows,&#8221; Rubio said, referring to the International Atomic Energy Agency.</p>
<p>&#8220;They are enriching uranium well beyond anything you need for a civil nuclear program,&#8221; Rubio said. &#8220;So why would you enrich uranium at 60% if you don&#8217;t intend to one day use it to take it to 90 and build a weapon? Why are you developing ICBMs? Why do you have 8,000 short-range missiles and 2-3 thousand mid-range missiles that you continue to develop? Why do you do all these things?&#8221;</p>
<p>Brennan said she &#8220;understood,&#8221; but Rubio was not done.</p>
<p>&#8220;They have everything they need for a nuclear weapon,&#8221; Rubio said. &#8220;They have the delivery mechanisms, they have the enrichment capability, they have the highly-enriched uranium that is stored — that&#8217;s all we need to see, especially in the hands of the regime that&#8217;s already involved in terrorism and proxies and all kinds of things. They are the source of all instability in the Middle East.&#8221;</p>
<p>Brennan said &#8220;no one is disputing&#8221; what Rubio was explaining. She noted that Iran was censured by the IAEA for its uranium enrichment and violating their nonproliferation agreements. She then stressed that she was &#8220;simply asking&#8221; if the United States had intelligence that there was an order to weaponize.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have intelligence that they have everything they need to build a nuclear weapon and that&#8217;s more than enough,&#8221; Rubio said.</p>

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