Trump says US will provide insurance for commercial shipping – as it happened
by Kate Lamb, Nadeem Badshah, Lucy Campbell, Tom Ambr from on (#73Z34)
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US secretary of state Marco Rubio has claimed the US attacked Iran after learning that Israel was going to strike, which would have meant retaliation against US forces.
We knew that if we didn't pre-emptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties," he told reporters
The Air Force is now attacking Tehran and Beirut simultaneously
The Air Force has now begun a wave of extensive strikes against the Iranian terror regime and the Hezbollah terror organization.
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