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Rubio: War on Iran ‘our last best chance’ to prevent nuclear push

Tehran was on the verge of having too many missiles and drones for its nuclear weapons program to be stopped, the U.S. secretary of state said.

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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio participates in a bilateral meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office of the White House, Aug. 18, 2025. Credit: Daniel Torok/White House.

The military campaign against Iran was “our last best chance” to eliminate the conventional threat posed by missiles and drones that Tehran has built to shield its pursuit of nuclear weapons, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday.

He added that the Iranians were “on the verge” of manufacturing so many missiles and drones that “no one could do anything about their nuclear weapons program in the future.”

U.S. President Donald Trump “made the right decision to wipe it out now. That is the goal of this operation—to destroy their conventional missiles and their drone program,” Rubio stated.

Listen to his full address below:

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