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On Tuesday President Donald Trump countered a statement by Secretary of State Marco Rubio about which country made the decision to attack Iran, the U.S. or Israel.
Trump was asked by a reporter on Tuesday “Did Israel force your hand to launch these strikes against Iran? Did Netanyahu pull the United States into this war?”
“No. I might have forced their hand,” the President said.
A day earlier Rubio had a different story behind the war – that Israel made the decision to attack Iran, and that the U.S. was dragged in after it.
“The President made the very wise decision—we knew that there was going to be an Israeli action, we knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we didn’t preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties,” Rubio said Monday.
Indeed Israel has been seeking to attack Iran for decades. In 2025 President Trump refused the Jewish State’s plea to join in on a military operation against Tehran.
