{"id":67847,"date":"2026-03-02T21:57:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T02:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/us-strikes-on-iran-triggered-by-israels-plan-to-launch-attack-rubio-says\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T21:57:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T02:57:41","slug":"us-strikes-on-iran-triggered-by-israels-plan-to-launch-attack-rubio-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/us-strikes-on-iran-triggered-by-israels-plan-to-launch-attack-rubio-says\/","title":{"rendered":"US strikes on Iran triggered by Israel\u2019s plan to launch attack, Rubio says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats disturbed by rationale that Trump ordered pre-emptive strikes out of concern about Tehran retaliation<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s determination to attack Iran and the certainty that US troops would be targeted in response forced the Trump administration to take pre-emptive strikes, the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said, in a new explanation for Washington\u2019s surprise entry into the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>The rationale drew divided reviews from top members of Congress who on Monday evening received the first briefing by the Trump administration since it ordered the air campaign to begin over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/02\/rubio-us-attack-israel-iran\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats disturbed by rationale that Trump ordered pre-emptive strikes out of concern about Tehran retaliation Israel\u2019s determination to attack Iran and the certainty that US troops would be targeted in response forced the Trump administration to take pre-emptive strikes, the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said, in a new explanation for Washington\u2019s surprise entry into &#8230; <a title=\"US strikes on Iran triggered by Israel\u2019s plan to launch attack, Rubio says\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/us-strikes-on-iran-triggered-by-israels-plan-to-launch-attack-rubio-says\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US strikes on Iran triggered by Israel\u2019s plan to launch attack, Rubio says\">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-67847","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\/67847","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=67847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}