Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US attacked Iran because they knew Israel was going to launch a military strike, and the Trump administration worried about retaliation from Tehran.
“We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action,” he told reporters on Capitol Hill after briefing lawmakers. “We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces.”
“Had we not done so, they would have been hearings on Capitol Hill about how we knew that this was going to happen.”
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