{"id":67169,"date":"2026-02-24T14:55:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T19:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/marco-rubio-to-deliver-rare-briefing-to-top-us-lawmakers-on-iran-amid-tensions\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T14:55:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T19:55:26","slug":"marco-rubio-to-deliver-rare-briefing-to-top-us-lawmakers-on-iran-amid-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/marco-rubio-to-deliver-rare-briefing-to-top-us-lawmakers-on-iran-amid-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Rubio to deliver rare briefing to top US lawmakers on Iran amid tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of state\u2019s address comes as US deploys largest force of aircraft and warships to Middle East since 2003<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/feb\/24\/us-politics-latest-news-donald-trump-tariffs-iran\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/marco-rubio\">Marco Rubio<\/a> will deliver a rare briefing to top US lawmakers on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/iran\">Iran<\/a> at the White House on Tuesday as Washington deploys its largest force of aircraft and warships to the Middle East since the 2003 buildup to the Iraq war.<\/p>\n<p>The audience for the secretary of state\u2019s briefing is reported to include the so-called \u201cgang of eight\u201d, which includes the senior lawmakers from both parties in the House and Senate, as well as the chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate intelligence committees.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/24\/marco-rubio-iran-briefing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of state\u2019s address comes as US deploys largest force of aircraft and warships to Middle East since 2003 US politics live \u2013 latest updates Marco Rubio will deliver a rare briefing to top US lawmakers on Iran at the White House on Tuesday as Washington deploys its largest force of aircraft and warships to &#8230; <a title=\"Marco Rubio to deliver rare briefing to top US lawmakers on Iran amid tensions\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/marco-rubio-to-deliver-rare-briefing-to-top-us-lawmakers-on-iran-amid-tensions\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Marco Rubio to deliver rare briefing to top US lawmakers on Iran amid tensions\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}