U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is now also President Donald Trump’s acting national security advisor, demanded yesterday that any future nuclear agreement with Iran must include American inspectors with full access to Iranian nuclear facilities—including military sites—to ensure they are not being used for weapons development. “I think you would have to allow Americans as part of – you can send – maybe there’ll be French inspectors, there’ll be Italian inspectors, there’ll be Saudis, whoever. But I think you cannot basically say we will not allow any Americans,” [Rubio told Sean Hannity yesterday on Fox News](https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/05/secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-with-sean-hannity-of-fox-news/, according to the transcript on the State Department website.
“One of the failures … of the Obama nuclear deal with Iran is that you could not inspect military sites. Well, if you’re making nuclear weapons, you would probably make them on a military site. And by the way, it’s been known and discovered that in the past Iran has had a secret nuclear program that it did not disclose to the world,” he told Hannity.
“President Trump is a president of peace. He doesn’t want a war. He doesn’t want conflict. None of us do. And there’s a path forward here. But what cannot happen is to live in a world where Iran has a nuclear weapon,” said Rubio.
