Good afternoon. I'm Rachel Maddo. It is 1 p.m. Eastern Time, and you are joining MS Now's ongoing coverage of the United States, having apparently started a war with Iran for some reason. Your guests, your personal guests, sitting at home watching me right now, your personal guess

is as good as any as to why the President of the United States has just started this war.

In terms of pure rational deduction about what he is doing here, we can basically rule out all the reasons he has said

he's doing it. Is Iran on the precipice of having ballistic missiles that can reach the United

States? Absolutely not. The United States is very far from Iran. One might even say it's a whole

continent away, which means a ballistic missile launched from Iran. One might even say it's a whole continent away, which means a ballistic missile

launched from Iran to hit us here would have to be an intercontinental ballistic missile.

Does Iran have ICBMs? Does Iran have intercontinental ballistic missiles? No, it does not.

And there is no known evidence or even

serious allegation that Iran is anywhere near developing that technology anytime soon.

Even Trump's Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has recently admitted that, admitting that the

threat is only that maybe, quote, one day Iran might have that kind of capability. One day, just like U.R.I might one day

learn to fly or to time travel. Is Iran a week away from industrial grade uranium enrichment?

As the president's diminutive real estate friend, Steve Whitkoff, asserted this week when he was

asked about the Iran talks. He is inexplicably part of on behalf of the United States government

and the people of the United States, despite his only relevant experience and training being

that he is an old real estate friend of President Donald Trump. Is Iran, as Steve Whitkoff says, a week away from achieving industrial-grade uranium enrichment

for their nuclear program?

No, they are not.

No, they are not.

Not only has there been no American or international evidence or intelligence made public

that suggests even that they are doing that.

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