Dan Bongino says classified intelligence showed Iran posed far more than a nuclear threat, pointing to cyberattacks, assassination plots, and what he calls a regime willing to use any weapon it acquires:
“If we had that Men in Black mind-wipe device and could read everyone into the President’s Daily Brief every morning, I promise you that even some of his most hardcore critics would say, ‘Wow, he definitely made the right call.’ I’m limited in what I can say, but I’ll tell you this: it wasn’t just the nuclear threat that was urgent. It was the cyber threat the Iranians were engaged in, the lethal plotting, and the assassination attempts. And I want everyone listening to remember this: they do not subscribe to the idea of mutually assured destruction. They do not act with the same logic or restraint as other adversaries. Even Putin, however dangerous he may be, does not want a nuclear weapon hitting Moscow. But the Iranians, in my view, are different. It is a bloodthirsty theocracy. If you give them the ability to kill us—if you hand them the gun—they’re going to use it.”