US strikes on Iran triggered by Israel's plan to launch attack, Rubio says
Source: The Guardian
Israel’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, the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said, in a new explanation for Washington’s surprise entry into the conflict.
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Rubio; the CIA director, John Ratcliffe; and joint chiefs of staff, chair Dan Caine; spoke to the lawmakers behind closed doors in the Capitol ahead of a vote expected later this week in the House of Representatives on a war powers resolution that presents an unlikely opportunity to force Trump to end hostilities against Iran.
“It was abundantly clear that if Iran came under attack by anyone – the United States or Israel or anyone – they were going to respond, and respond against the United States,” Rubio told reporters at the Capitol.
“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 pre-emptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties.”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/02/rubio-us-attack-israel-iran
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And there was nothing we could do to prevent them from attacking.
But if they attacked, we knew that Iran would def, def, def, def, def attack us, which is to say, some military bases we have in the Middle East.
So, because Israel was def going to attack them, and they were then def gonna attack us, attacking them first was preemptive to them attacking us because Israel was attacking them, because Israel thought they would attack Israel.
See, it all makes sense! Crystal clear. Thanks, Li'l Marco.
In Vietnam we had the Domino Theory. For Iran, we have the "Ever Play 52 Pick-Up?" theory.
