Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CBS host Margaret Brennan clashed over whether U.S. intelligence has confirmed that Iran’s Supreme Leader ordered the development of a nuclear weapon, with Rubio dismissing Brennan’s question as “irrelevant.”
On Face the Nation Sunday, Brennan asked Rubio if the United States had “intelligence that the Supreme Leader had ordered weaponization” of the uranium. Rubio, who also serves as National Security Advisor, responded sharply, asserting that whether or not the Supreme Leader gave such an order was immaterial because the regime was already pursuing a nuclear weapon.
“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,” Rubio said.
The CBS host argued that whether weaponization had been officially ordered was the “key point” in U.S. intelligence assessments. Rubio disagreed, asserting that this was not the case and claimed he understood the subject “better” than Brennan.
“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. The only countries in the world that have uranium at 60% are countries that have