Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that Iran is “much further away from a nuclear weapon” amid new intelligence assessments that a U.S. strike did not destroy three of the country’s nuclear sites, APA reports citing Politico.
Rubio, in an exclusive interview with POLITICO’s Dasha Burns on the sidelines of the NATO summit, offered a more measured assessment than President Donald Trump, who has insisted that Iran’s sites at Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan have been “completely destroyed.”
“If we did what everybody here wants us to do, and that is come in and crush them with more sanctions, we probably lose our ability to talk to them about the ceasefire and then who’s talking to them?,” Rubio said.
