President Donald Trump on Tuesday told reporters that he ordered the war against Iran because he believed that the Iranians planned to strike first, in an effort to change the narrative after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. became engaged because it knew Israel would attack, putting U.S. troops at risk in the region.
The Israeli military announced on Sunday that its forces dropped at least 2,000 bombs across Iran in the first 30 hours of the war against Iran, which these officials said is more than half of what it fired during the previous 12-day war last summer, according to a report.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio addressed reporters on Monday and was asked why the Trump administration decided to go to war on Saturday with Iran, and he said it was essentially a preemptive strike because the Israelis were going to attack.
Just days before the U.S. and Israel carried out another sneak attack on Iran, President Donald Trump addressed the country during his State of the Union address and drew a bipartisan standing ovation when he said he will never allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon, despite Tehran explicitly saying hours before his speech that it has no interest in developing the bomb.
Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia’s national security council, called out President Donald Trump’s hypocrisy on Saturday after the U.S. and Israel carried out an opening strike against Iran, posting on X: “The peacekeeper is at it again.”
President Donald Trump failed to get Americans to support the U.S.’s illegal war of aggression against Iran, according to a poll that was taken just hours after the opening attack on the country.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the U.S.-Israeli strike on Tehran that resulted in the death of Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gives Iranians an opening to overthrow the government that they never had before, and they should take it.
Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India, visited his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, in Israel last week and spoke about New Delhi’s unshakable support for Tel Aviv, even as the IDF carries out genocide in Gaza and as its government pushed for a regime-change war against Iran that started days after the meeting.
The Israeli military announced that its opening attack on Iran Saturday was the IDF’s largest aerial operation it ever conducted, which included over 200 aircraft that hit 500 targets across Iran.
A team of internationally recognized experts said Iran’s nuclear enrichment program had been on hold since the 12-day war between Tehran and a combination of the U.S. and Israel, but those assurances did not stop the Trump administration from joining Tel Aviv in a new regime-change war.