Regime change, a campaign to stop Tehran’s ballistic missile programme, help for protesters and retribution for the deaths of American soldiers. Donald Trump has cited several reasons for launching the US into another Middle Eastern war.
On Monday evening his secretary of state, Marco Rubio, had another: the US knew that Israel was poised to attack Iran, which would retaliate against the US.
“We knew that if we didn’t preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties,” he told reporters in Congress. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson later repeated the same claim.
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