By Katherine Tinsley
1:06pm PDT, Jun 24, 2025
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Marco Rubio lost his patience after CBS Host
Margaret Brennan attempted to ask the Secretary of State about the United States' decision to send military strikes to Iran.
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On the Sunday, June 22, episode of Face the Nation, Margaret Brennan asked Marco Rubio if the United States saw "intelligence that the Supreme Leader had ordered weaponization" of uranium: "That's irrelevant. I see that question being asked in the media all the time. That's an irrelevant question. They have everything they need to build a weapon," he fired back.
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Margaret Brennan later asked if the "ordered weaponization" was the "key point" in the Donald Trump administration's analysis: "Why would you bury things in a mountain, 300 feet under the ground? Why would they have 60% enriched uranium? You don't need 60% enriched uranium," Marco Rubio said. "The only countries in the world that have uranium at 60% are countries that have nuclear weapons, because it can quickly make it 90. They have all the elements. Why do they have a space program? Is Iran going to go to the moon? No. They're trying to build an ICBM so they can one day put a warhead on it."
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Marco Rubio later warned Margaret Brennan about Iran's ability to expand their nuclear capabilities: "They have the delivery mechanisms. They have the enrichment capability. They have the highly enriched uranium that is stored," he said. "That's all we need to see. Especially in the hands of a regime that's already involved in terrorism and proxies and all kinds of things around. They are the source of all instability in the Middle East."
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Margaret Brennan noted how United States Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said in her congressional testimony that Iran didn't order the construction of a nuclear weapon: "That's an inaccurate representation of it. That's not how intelligence is read. That's now how intelligence is used," Marco Rubio argued.
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Marco Rubio also noted that the International Atomic Energy Agency found that Iran wasn't in compliance with its nuclear nonproliferation obligations. The report said that the Board of Governors found "that Iran's many failures to uphold its obligations since 2019 to provide the Agency with full and timely cooperation regarding undeclared nuclear material and activities at multiple undeclared locations in Iran … constitutes non-compliance with its obligations under its Safeguards Agreement with the Agency."
