Rubio admits Israel’s planned strikes on Iran drove US decision to join the offensive

WASHINGTON (MNTV) – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio acknowledged that planned Israeli military operations against Iran — which risked provoking retaliatory attacks on American forces — led the United States to carry out its own preemptive strikes on Tehran.

“We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action, we knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we didn’t preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties,” Rubio told reporters.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi responded on social media, stating that Rubio had admitted “what we all knew: the U.S. has entered a war of choice on behalf of Israel. There was never any so-called Iranian ‘threat.'”

Araghchi added that “shedding of both American and Iranian blood is thus on Israel Firsters,” and said “American people deserve better and should take back their country.”

Meanwhile, President Trump defended his actions amid growing criticism that he has not sufficiently explained the rationale for initiating conflict with Iran or outlined a clear endgame.

The criticism is coming from both the political left and Trump’s own “Make America Great Again” supporters, as the conflict spreads, energy costs rise and casualties mount in what the administration describes as potentially just the opening phase of the war.

Facing pressure over the lack of clarity, Trump and his top aides laid out four objectives for the war, all of them military in nature: destroying Iran’s navy and military capacities, ending the clerical state’s support for regional militants, and preventing it from developing a nuclear bomb.