Daily Wire host: “Was Iran really on the brink of a nuclear weapon? No.”
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From the March 2, 2026, edition of The Daily Wire's The Michael Knowles Show
MICHAEL KNOWLES (HOST): What are the reasons for war? I wanna be real specific. I wanna really drill down here on what we're doing. One reason that has been suggested is that Iran was on the brink of a nuclear weapon, something we've been hearing, in my case, almost, every year of my life, since I was born. What? Since the 90s, really, since the 80s, we've been hearing this. Since before I was born. Iran is on the brink of a nuclear weapon. According to reporting and sources from Capitol Hill and elsewhere, was Iran really on the brink of a nuclear weapon? No. Were they pursuing a nuclear weapon? Yes. Did Trump's military strikes on Fordow last year set back the nuclear program? Yes, obviously. But it couldn't be the case that that was a totally successful operation and Iran was once again on the brink of nuclear weapons. That would be contradictory, but that's not what -- that's not even what was being claimed. Iran was continuing to pursue nuclear weapons. Trump was clearly unhappy with how the negotiations were going. We tried to negotiate with Iran for almost fifty years. They just wouldn't they wouldn't play ball. So Trump said, OK. Well, look. I gave him him a serious hit over the summer. They didn't want to play ball after that. I guess I gotta take out the regime. So brink of nuclear weapons? Probably not.
There was another claim that Iran was about to launch an attack on US interests, and so we had to preempt that because they were about to launch a missile attack any day now. There is really no evidence of that at all. I think that is just pure propaganda flying around from where I'm not totally sure. But according to the people who were debriefing Congress on this matter, apparently, no. Iran was not about to launch an attack on US interests.