U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on March 3 that the attacks against Iran’s Islamic regime would noticeably increase in intensity “in the next few hours and days.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday gave a new explanation from the Trump administration about why the U.S. decided to launch military action against Iran now — saying the threat from Iran was “imminent” because it knew it would retaliate against the U.S. if attacked, including by Israel.
“If we stood and waited for that attack to come first, before we hit them, we would suffer much higher casualties,” Rubio went on. “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.”
“No matter what, ultimately, this operation needed to happen. That’s the question of why now,” he said, referring to the impending Israeli strike. “But this operation needed to happen.”
“You’re going to really begin to perceive a change in the scope and intensity of these attacks as, frankly, the two most powerful air forces in the world take apart this terroristic regime,” he said.
