Secretary of State Marco Rubio has sparked fury after suggesting that the US was forced into attacking Iran after being told Israel planned to launch strikes first.

Mr Rubio said President Donald Trump was forced into a preemptive response after learning of an imminent Israeli attack, as officials knew such an attack would trigger retaliation against US military personnel in the Middle East.

“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,” the secretary of state told reporters at the Capitol on Monday.

“There was a threat to Israel. If we equate a threat to Israel as the equivalent of an imminent threat to the United States, then we are in uncharted territory.”

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/israel-s-imminent-attack-on-iran-forced-us-to-join-war-says-rubio/ar-AA1Xq85h?

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Israel’s prime minister says strikes on Tehran will increase in the coming days, with US support, to do what Benjamin Netanyahu says he’s ‘hoped to do for 40 years’.

https://x.com/WarTracker_/status/2028282748163457122

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 Jeffrey Sachs – “Netanyahu is our greatest, disastrous president of the 21st century, he ran American foreign policy for 20 years, and cost us trillions of dollars.”

https://x.com/aldamu_jo/status/2007064761150927207  (posted in January 2026)

Jeffrey Sachs — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sachs   (Globalist)