U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused Iran of taking the world hostage through its retaliatory strikes and insisted that the United States was on track with its war objectives. Rubio told at an event at the State Department:
I think we are all seeing right now the threat this clerical regime poses to the region and to the world. They are trying to hold the world hostage.
They are attacking neighboring countries, their energy infrastructure, their civilian population.
The United States and Israel attacked Iran on February 28th and promptly killed the Islamic republic’s longtime supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Since then, Iran has fired off a barrage of missiles and drones aimed at Israel and the Gulf Arab monarchies, which offer key bases to U.S. forces.
The secretary of state also emphasized that
the objective of this mission is to destroy their ability to continue to do that, and we [the U.S. and Israel] are well on our way to achieving that.
