Marco Rubio tries to defend starting Iran war with circular ‘imminent threat’ claim
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has tried to defend Washington’s latest war on Iran by claiming there was an “imminent threat” because officials believed Iran would retaliate against the United States if it were attacked "by someone else", prompting the US to strike first.
He said “we knew that if Iran was attacked and we believed they would be attacked, that they would immediately come after us”, adding that the US acted “proactively in a defensive way” to avoid “more casualties and more deaths”.
Reporters challenged him, suggesting the United States moved in anticipation of an Israeli attack and to avoid absorbing the fallout to which Rubio rejected that framing.
Critics argue the US has effectively started a wider war in the region because Israel has long wanted it to do so.
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