Carter Banks

Watch your language.

Americans are asking, why did the United States have to attack Iran now?

Well, let me explain.

Iran wants to have nuclear weapons.

Of that, there is zero doubt.

If what they truly wanted, which is what they claim, is nuclear energy, well, they could have nuclear energy, like all the other countries in the world have it, and that is you import the fuel and you build reactors above ground.

That's not what Iran has done.

They build their reactors and their facilities deep in mountains, away from the public glare, and they want to enrich that material.

The same equipment that they could use to enrich material for energy, they could use to quickly enrich it to weapons grade.

So it is clear that they've been offered every opportunity to have a nuclear program that allows them to have energy, not weapons, and every single time they have turned it down.

But why the attack now?

Well, what was Iran trying to do?

Iran was trying to build a conventional shield, in essence, have so many missiles, have so many drones, that no one could attack them.

And they were well on their way.

We were on the verge of an Iran that had so many missiles and so many drones that no one could do anything about their nuclear weapons program in the future.

That was an intolerable risk.

Under no circumstances can a country run by radical Shia clerics with an apocalyptic vision of the future ever possess nuclear weapons.

And under no circumstances can they be allowed to hide and protect that program and their ambitions behind a shield of missiles and drones that no one can do anything about.

This was our last best chance to eliminate that conventional threat, that conventional shield that they were trying to build.

And the president made the right decision to wipe it out now.