Secretary of State Marco Rubio said U.S. strikes had destroyed a facility that is key to producing a nuclear weapon. He railed against a less optimistic U.S. intelligence report.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Politico on Wednesday that Iran was “much further away from a nuclear weapon” following a US strike on Tehran’s three main nuclear sites over the weekend. Rubio’s comments come after Reuters and others reported Tuesday that those US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities set back Tehran’s program by only a matter of months,