EXCLUSIVE: Iran has “less capacity today than they did just a week ago to rapidly produce a nuclear weapon behind the world’s back,” U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told our Dasha Burns during the #NATOSummit. 👉 politi.co/4esvWYQ #POLITICOnato
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“Less capacity” is not “obliterated.” The media amplified Trump’s lies.
jun 25, 2025, 7:30 am • 2 0 • view
He doesn't know that, so why is he lying about it and why are you stenographing his lies?
jun 25, 2025, 5:38 pm • 1 0 • view
Because it's @politico.com and they bend the knee to his Orange Highness.
jun 25, 2025, 5:40 pm • 1 0 • view
It's all bullshit, but lets go with the strikes were a success, Iran is no longer a nuclear threat and it's time to do business. Fair business not colonial business.
jun 25, 2025, 5:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Liar 🤥
jun 25, 2025, 1:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Less capacity and sure as shit not "obliterated" as said by the compulsive liar.
jun 25, 2025, 1:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Not only did IRAN Get to remove the enriched uranium, they moved the Centrifuges. Did TRUMP warn IRAN? The cost of this was over 10 billion dollars to bomb empty facilities.
jun 26, 2025, 8:53 am • 0 0 • view
And 1,600 is less than 1,650.
jun 25, 2025, 7:17 am • 0 0 • view
They just lie. Stop letting them get away with it
jun 26, 2025, 4:41 am • 0 0 • view
Funny daddy said it was completely destroyed. So which is it completely destroyed or mildly inconvenienced
jun 25, 2025, 3:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Never trust a word a politician says. Especially the word of a republican politician.
jun 25, 2025, 11:47 am • 0 0 • view
This isn’t true.
jun 25, 2025, 11:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Moving the goalpost already from totally obliterated to less capacity.
jun 25, 2025, 12:49 pm • 7 0 • view
You fool. Iran now is more motivated than ever to produce nuclear weapons.
jun 26, 2025, 4:07 am • 1 0 • view
How do they know? They don't even know where they hid their material. These politicians still try to gas light everyone on a daily basis.
jun 25, 2025, 12:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes - Iran is down a few nuclear scientists. Otherwise it’s about the same.
jun 25, 2025, 7:43 am • 0 0 • view
But does it have "less capacity" than it had 2018 when the International Atomic Energy Agency had regular access to all Iranian nuclear facilities to monitor compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action before trump tore it up because he was jealous of Obama getting the deal done ?
jun 25, 2025, 7:25 am • 32 3 • view
jun 26, 2025, 10:31 am • 0 0 • view
That literally covers everything from "their facilities were totally obliterated" to "they were mildly inconvenienced by having to temporarily relocate their enriched uranium."
jun 26, 2025, 3:13 am • 0 0 • view
So the goal was to just make them less capable than a week ago? Israel had already done that much, smh.
jun 25, 2025, 11:50 am • 0 0 • view
Putin in a roundtable press interview said Russia has hundreds of Russians in Iran building multiple nuclear installations. He says he spoke with Netanyahu and Trump warning them not to kill any Russians.
jun 25, 2025, 11:55 am • 0 0 • view
right, Trump gave them advanced notice and still wants to claim that Iran didn't move any of their Uranium??? You would have to be brain dead to believe him at this point.
jun 25, 2025, 1:10 pm • 0 0 • view
He also said 'Forget about intelligence' Let us not forget that.
jun 25, 2025, 5:02 pm • 0 0 • view
But much more reason to do so... What could possibly go wrong
jun 25, 2025, 3:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Marco is full of shit
jun 26, 2025, 10:35 am • 0 0 • view
And he bases his “assessment” on the assessment from General Taco who had his sons, Dumb and Dumber, on the ground in Iran. They assessed the damage while trying to find the best spot for Taco Tower Tehran.
jun 25, 2025, 5:50 pm • 1 0 • view
All this just an act. Trump bombed empty bunkers to then head to NATO with his big dick in his small hands to scare NATO into giving him stuff.
jun 25, 2025, 12:35 pm • 1 0 • view
both small my bet
jun 25, 2025, 1:04 pm • 1 0 • view
99.99999999 is .00000001 less capacity than 100.
jun 25, 2025, 6:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Bumbling idiot
jun 25, 2025, 7:56 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah sure you fucking liar Rubio!
jun 25, 2025, 6:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Sure, but not "obliterated."
jun 25, 2025, 5:05 pm • 0 0 • view
It is their capacity since 2018 when trump ripped up JCPOA that has increased dramatically.
jun 26, 2025, 9:30 am • 0 0 • view
“Less” capacity. Not exactly the steady stream of over-emphasized superlatives you usually hear coming out of Trump World.
jun 25, 2025, 4:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Hey @politico.com, the story is not the lies that Rubio told you but the gap between his lies and the verifiable facts. Do not just amplify Rubio’s lies. That is Fox’s job.
jun 26, 2025, 2:57 am • 2 0 • view
nah they both want to make money off of your attention
jun 26, 2025, 3:21 am • 1 0 • view
I have to laugh when Democrats are Biggly mad because T didn’t go through congress before the strike. And Biggly mad they can’t get briefed on damage done. Where in the hell have you been the last 10yrs? You don’t exist to T. Just a fly he wants to crush. He ignores courts orders. SCOTUS thank you!
jun 25, 2025, 2:16 pm • 0 0 • view
We did nothing but prove that the United States has no competent leadership.
jun 25, 2025, 12:30 pm • 0 0 • view
He does not know shit, because he’s a liar. He has no way to prove what happened, this shit is based on satellite imagery
jun 25, 2025, 4:45 pm • 0 0 • view
5'8" and still as big a liar as the Mango Mussolini.
jun 25, 2025, 5:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Great news! Can we now proceed with arresting Netanyahu for war crimes?
jun 25, 2025, 7:30 am • 1 0 • view
jun 25, 2025, 12:48 pm • 6 0 • view
jun 25, 2025, 12:47 pm • 12 1 • view
Hey politico, any interest in Arizona beachfront property? I've got an amazing deal on a luxury business space overlooking the amazing Arizona coast. This wont last let me tell you
jun 26, 2025, 3:40 am • 0 0 • view
And we’re supposed to believe Rubio???
jun 25, 2025, 1:47 pm • 0 0 • view
No one believes the lying Rubio. He's totally incompetent.
jun 25, 2025, 1:15 pm • 2 0 • view
They can sycophanticly ignore reality all they like and it will never make it less real. That’s why successful leaders surround themselves with experts instead of worshippers
jun 25, 2025, 7:45 am • 2 0 • view
True that. For a while.
jun 25, 2025, 7:16 am • 0 0 • view
I thought it was totally obliterated?!
jun 25, 2025, 5:57 pm • 0 0 • view
WOW, he's grasping at straws for a story!
jun 25, 2025, 11:09 pm • 1 0 • view
Hegseth has the red nose. Marco brings the seltzer.🤡
jun 25, 2025, 3:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Lol...someone watched star wars yesterday
jun 25, 2025, 7:41 am • 0 0 • view
LOL! & you believed him? Whatever happened to journalism?
jun 25, 2025, 5:42 pm • 0 0 • view
didn’t seem so rapid to begin with.
jun 25, 2025, 4:22 pm • 0 0 • view
When Little Marco breathes, he lies. 😏
jun 25, 2025, 10:32 am • 0 0 • view
Rubio with his prepared LIES doesn’t change the fact Trump failed to get anything done in Iran! It was his own fault by posting incessantly on social media his intentions that told Iran to move the centrifuges out of harm’s way.
jun 25, 2025, 10:09 am • 0 0 • view
But do they? What evidence is there?
jun 25, 2025, 7:31 am • 0 0 • view
Maybe if Trump had kept his fat, self-aggrandizing mouth shut they wouldn’t have moved everything to different locations.
jun 25, 2025, 8:03 pm • 2 0 • view
Don't buy any of this nonsense. This has nothing to do with nuclear weapons except of the resources capitalist want to steal from this country to produce their warheads
jun 25, 2025, 4:10 pm • 0 0 • view
‘Less’ … not total obliteration then?
jun 25, 2025, 7:19 am • 10 1 • view
Libs are big man that T making the world safer. Why?
jun 25, 2025, 1:18 pm • 0 0 • view
$100 says trump told putin, and putin told Iran. Traitor and lapdog of Putin. Lock him the fuck up.
jun 25, 2025, 12:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Less capacity, maybe, but you’ve just given them even more motivation to fast-forward their production of nuclear weapons to use, to deter or to defend themselves against another attack from the west.
jun 26, 2025, 1:34 am • 0 0 • view
You cannot rapidly produce a nuke.. ffs #MarcoRubio really is a sad lying skidmark
jun 25, 2025, 5:58 pm • 0 0 • view
has no more intelligence than he had when they started
jun 26, 2025, 9:57 am • 0 0 • view
"Less capacity today" is a far cry from "completely and totally obliterated." This is a pathetic attempt at face-saving, a cringeworthy bit of posturing that should be beneath American leaders. But with the incompetent IMPOTUS regime, this is just another reminder we are governed by dinguses.
jun 25, 2025, 1:59 pm • 0 0 • view
You can see how much hatred ages a person already watching this person over the last few months.
jun 25, 2025, 3:17 pm • 0 0 • view
"less capacity" but WAAAAAAY more motivation (as does every other nation-state)
jun 25, 2025, 5:14 pm • 0 0 • view
American media can't help but fawn over "going to war"....
jun 25, 2025, 10:41 am • 0 0 • view
Behind the world’s back. These fascist dimwits always need a scary boogeyman. Also, Iran was complying when the rapist in chief killed it……cause the black guy signed it.
jun 25, 2025, 8:54 am • 1 0 • view
You’re talking to a proven liar and labeling it as an “exclusive”?
jun 25, 2025, 4:44 pm • 0 0 • view
But, I thought they had a nuclear weapon not just the capacity to create one and they were an immediate threat because of that
jun 25, 2025, 3:16 pm • 1 0 • view
At $7 billion-plus that’s not saying much
jun 25, 2025, 8:31 am • 1 0 • view
Less capacity but more motivation.
jun 25, 2025, 8:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Oaf.
jun 25, 2025, 8:20 am • 0 0 • view
OK, Marco, I mean…
jun 25, 2025, 1:44 pm • 0 0 • view
You would get a better answer to any question from a mannequin.
jun 25, 2025, 1:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Blah blah blah. I don't believe a word he says.
jun 25, 2025, 6:14 pm • 0 0 • view
The U.S. put Iran back a week !!
jun 25, 2025, 12:47 pm • 5 0 • view
Spin.
jun 25, 2025, 7:17 am • 0 0 • view
We thought the same after bombing V2 rocket testing grounds in Germany, but the rockets and buzz bombs started raining on London anyways 🙄😂
jun 26, 2025, 1:18 pm • 0 0 • view
"The world's back?", sorry to tell you Rube, you sad pathetic excuse for a US Secretary, the USA no longer speaks for the world.
jun 25, 2025, 3:57 pm • 5 1 • view
They cannot rapidly produce a nuclear weapon. First they would have to slowly enrich their uranium to make it weapons grade. He knows this. He's fear mongering.
jun 25, 2025, 3:44 pm • 0 0 • view
And of course you gave ZERO push back to his lies - FUCK OFF you orange hacks
jun 25, 2025, 1:12 pm • 1 0 • view
This cowardly Trump stooge has absolutely no credibility.
jun 25, 2025, 1:05 pm • 6 1 • view
MSM needs to stop staring at shiny objects. Pound the fact that this action was illegal!
jun 25, 2025, 2:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Who cares that it was said. DOES IT? and whether it does or not matters but here the problem is that your just reporting what someone said. and here we cant just report what rubio says because of who he has allegiance to.
jun 25, 2025, 8:00 am • 0 0 • view
Liar little Marco!!
jun 26, 2025, 2:21 am • 0 0 • view
Yah. "Totally obliterated"!
jun 25, 2025, 3:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Less capacity and more motive
jun 25, 2025, 9:06 am • 1 0 • view
And Politico reports on it as though it was the truth.
jun 25, 2025, 4:37 pm • 1 0 • view
How about tomorrow?
jun 25, 2025, 7:23 am • 0 0 • view
BS
jun 26, 2025, 2:33 am • 1 0 • view
It's been over 40 years. If they wanted to, they would have 3 times over. Fear mongering racist jackass.
jun 25, 2025, 8:44 am • 1 0 • view
LOOK YOO MUNKYZ! THEY HAV NO CAPASITY CUZ THE NOOKLYER WUZ OBLITERAYTED! THEY DONT HAV NO NOOKLYER ENYMOR! WE BOMD THE FUK OUTTA THEM! BOMD THEM WITH THE BIGLYEST BOM EVER! FAKE NOOZ IZ RONG IF THEY SED DIFFRENT! LISSEN TO WUT I TELL YOO CUZ I NEVER LIE! NEVER HAV EVEN WUNSE! DONT GOOGLE THAT!
jun 25, 2025, 6:30 pm • 0 0 • view
That is ABSOLUTELY what #TheDumbestAmericans believe to be true.
jun 25, 2025, 4:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Yall are quick to call him a liar, but 11.9% is indeed less capacity than 12%
jun 25, 2025, 3:16 pm • 2 0 • view
These news hosts are so unprepared going into these interviews. Since they are asking the questions they should know how to push back the lies ahead of time. I don't know if its just lazy reporting or disregard for the truth.
jun 25, 2025, 10:51 am • 0 0 • view
Dasha is MAGA
jun 25, 2025, 4:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Ooh, exclusive, wow.
jun 25, 2025, 7:17 am • 3 0 • view
Infinitesimally less capacity. Hugely expanded will.
jun 25, 2025, 8:03 am • 0 0 • view
🤣🤣🤣
jun 25, 2025, 9:19 am • 0 0 • view
The one thing these people are truly good at, blowing smoke up our asses. FFS Rube we are not MAGA, we can see the truth and it isn't what you are spewing.
jun 26, 2025, 2:38 am • 0 0 • view
Has a more equivocal, non-committal statement ever been issued by the State Department?
jun 25, 2025, 7:41 am • 5 0 • view
More Fox News crap from Politico.
jun 25, 2025, 4:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh, no. Marco gonna be in trouble with his obliteration boss.
jun 25, 2025, 4:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Technically probably true. But one, they will have that capacity back in weeks to months and two, you moved them from like 0.1 to 0. There was and is no bomb program by your own intelligence.
jun 26, 2025, 2:57 am • 0 0 • view
there is no bomb program but why did they have the enriched uranium? they didn't need to keep enriching it past energy usage levels
jun 26, 2025, 3:23 am • 0 0 • view
Well one, they argue it's not enriched to weapons level and we had inspectors to verify that until Trump ended it. And two, with madman Trump being at the end of Bibi's leash wouldn't you want the ability to quickly build weapons for defense?
jun 26, 2025, 3:31 am • 0 0 • view
Politico and parroting state department propaganda. Name a more iconic duo.
jun 25, 2025, 5:50 pm • 0 0 • view
And less credibility and moral weight in the world than 4 years ago.
jun 25, 2025, 7:19 am • 3 0 • view
jun 25, 2025, 12:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Wait, so they’re admitting that they only set them back a week?! 🤣🤣🤣
jun 25, 2025, 4:13 pm • 0 0 • view
You’re all such sycophants.
jun 25, 2025, 8:02 am • 0 0 • view
To call an interview where your subject will engage in bad faith and obfuscate an “exclusive” is just so fucking ridiculous.
jun 25, 2025, 8:09 am • 0 0 • view
Marco Rubio doesn’t believe in “intelligence” so nothing he says holds any value.
jun 25, 2025, 11:53 am • 0 0 • view
Sure…and I have less gas in my car than I did yesterday but that doesn’t mean the tank is empty!
jun 26, 2025, 12:54 pm • 2 0 • view
My prediction: When we get hard evidence, we will find that donald's threats actually spurred Iran to move everything to a new, more secure facility with higher capabilities, thus increasing their production.
jun 26, 2025, 12:32 pm • 1 0 • view
Marco lies.
jun 25, 2025, 2:07 pm • 5 0 • view
Anybody really surprised by this latest vote. en.mehrnews.com/news/233645/...
jun 25, 2025, 9:09 am • 0 0 • view
Exactly when did Politico turn into Trumps buttplug?
jun 25, 2025, 11:50 am • 0 0 • view
That may be, but if they started with virtually no capacity to do it anyway, that's not much of a gain to offset the massive cost, both financial and political.
jun 25, 2025, 1:12 pm • 1 0 • view
Such lies
jun 25, 2025, 2:38 pm • 0 0 • view
In 1973 my parents drove from Tacoma to Salina. They took turns sleeping in the back seat while the other drove. I and Rand McNally were their GPS. We ate out of a cooler, stopping only to refuel and use the restroom. We arrived precisely at my sister’s driveway. Right out of science fiction.
jun 25, 2025, 4:52 pm • 0 0 • view
jun 25, 2025, 4:42 pm • 7 1 • view
Exclusive bullshit, you mean. This dangerously compliant, weak-ass, soulless orc is a threat to America and the world.
jun 25, 2025, 8:20 am • 0 0 • view
Rubio is a complete disgrace...
jun 25, 2025, 8:18 am • 0 0 • view
two weeks less
jun 25, 2025, 11:43 am • 4 0 • view
Did she call him a steaming pile of lying shit, or is the truth too much to ask for from your Nazi-owned publication?
jun 25, 2025, 3:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Hmmm. I think I'll start believing Marco Rubio today.
jun 25, 2025, 12:05 pm • 0 0 • view
So we’re just going to pretend that Iran was close to developing a weapon even though the entire world, including our own intelligence community knows that’s a LIE!?
jun 25, 2025, 3:13 pm • 5 0 • view
Does he mean the Iranians will now be required to do some road repairs that weren't necessary a week ago.
jun 25, 2025, 2:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Lick that orange boot Marco
jun 25, 2025, 9:09 am • 0 0 • view
Maybe so, but in exchange they've got Medvedev offering Iran some of Russia's nukes so it's not like this is a big win.
jun 25, 2025, 10:47 am • 0 0 • view
Less capacity…but far more motivation.
jun 25, 2025, 9:43 am • 0 0 • view
Why are you a mouthpiece for his lies?!
jun 25, 2025, 5:59 pm • 0 0 • view
"We set them back a whole week? What more did you want?"
jun 25, 2025, 6:58 pm • 2 0 • view
“Iran has more motivation now to produce a nuclear weapon than it did just a week ago”
jun 25, 2025, 10:58 am • 4 0 • view
It has more reason though
jun 25, 2025, 3:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Sure, and America has less credibility and security right out in the open for everyone to see.
jun 25, 2025, 4:08 pm • 1 0 • view
What a load of bollocks, Iran could have made a nuke years ago. In Islam, nukes are considered forbidden (haram) by a religious edict (fatwa) issued by Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei 25 years ago. Maybe educate yourselves and stop spreading fake news on public forums.
jun 25, 2025, 12:03 pm • 1 0 • view
jun 25, 2025, 8:57 am • 0 0 • view
lol. Slightly different than complete obliteration
jun 25, 2025, 11:59 am • 0 0 • view
BS but you media sure love to guzzle it down with a side of piss.
jun 25, 2025, 12:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Less capacity but more motivation.
jun 25, 2025, 6:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Less capacity? Not obliterated?
jun 25, 2025, 2:55 pm • 0 0 • view
All performative and just made them look like the idiots the world already knows they are.
jun 25, 2025, 6:36 pm • 0 0 • view
He wasn't going to tell the truth anyways !
jun 25, 2025, 10:52 am • 0 0 • view
I see we went from “none” to “less”. Nice try Rubio
jun 25, 2025, 2:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Does Dasha realize that carrying Marco’s lies for him make her and politico look weak? Do your reporters do any research before these interviews? or just take everything they are being told as fact?
jun 25, 2025, 3:38 pm • 1 0 • view
Nobody could expect him to say it was a complete waste of money, which it was.🤣
jun 25, 2025, 7:55 am • 13 0 • view
Less? How so? Tell me more little Marco Rubio
jun 25, 2025, 5:19 pm • 0 0 • view
jun 25, 2025, 7:55 am • 1 0 • view
How much less? Turns out, not a lot less. And their government now has a LOT more domestic support
jun 25, 2025, 6:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Rubio is a cuck. That is all.
jun 25, 2025, 4:49 pm • 2 0 • view
They blew up some mountains?
jun 26, 2025, 1:16 am • 0 0 • view
But 10 fold the will to do it.
jun 25, 2025, 7:24 am • 7 0 • view
Weaseling weasel.
jun 25, 2025, 9:04 am • 0 0 • view
Now they have more motivation than ever to make a nuclear weapon. What would you do if your neighbor started blowing up your backyard?
jun 25, 2025, 7:28 am • 1 0 • view
Good thing lying doesn't cause cavity or Rubio would lose all his teeth.
jun 25, 2025, 7:22 am • 2 0 • view