After learning that Israel would strike Iran , posing an 'imminent threat' to US soldiers in the region due to retaliatory strikes, the US chose to 'act preemptively,' Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.
Secretary of state says Trump ordered pre-emptive strikes out of concern about Tehran retaliation after Israeli attackIsrael’s determination to attack Iran and the certainty that US troops would be targeted in response forced the Trump administration to take pre-emptive strikes, secretary of state Marco Rubio said, in a new explanation for Washington’s…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio sparked fresh criticism over the Trump administration’s shifting rationale for the Iran war after he suggested that Israel’s determination to strike the country had forced the US to act.
Megyn Kelly is facing fierce backlash after suggesting that American service members killed in the escalating conflict with Iran “died for Iran or for Israel,” rather than for the United States.
President Donald Trump denied on Tuesday that Israel was responsible for dragging the United States into a brewing conflict with Iran. Trump said during an impromptu press conference in the Oval Office with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz that Iran was likely to attack first and that, if anything, the U.S. forced Israel into the conflict.…
Israel’s plan to strike Iran would put American lives at risk, Rubio said. Rather than confronting Israel, the U.S. joined their war.
President Trump on Tuesday said he “might” have forced Israel’s hand to strike Iran first, saying his opinion was that the Islamic Republic was going to launch a military strike first. “It was my opinion that they were going to attack first,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday, sitting next to Germany’s…
