USA and Israel justify war against Iran

Middle East

USA and Israel justify war against Iran

The escalation in the Middle East is expanding. In the USA, Republicans are focusing on the role of their ally Israel – its prime minister himself provides a justification for the war.

Leading US Republicans are now increasingly focusing on Israel’s actions as justification for their own attack on Iran. “Israel was determined to act here in its own defense, with or without American support,” said Republican Speaker of the US House of Representatives Mike Johnson. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters: “The immediate danger was that we knew that if Iran was attacked – and we expected it would be attacked – it would immediately move against us.”

“We knew there would be an Israeli intervention. We knew it would trigger an attack on American forces,” Rubio continued. The USA came to the conclusion that it would have had more injuries and deaths if it had not taken “preventive action” against Iran under these circumstances. “We acted proactively in a defensive manner to prevent them from causing greater damage.” So far, six US soldiers have died.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told US television channel Fox News: “The reason we had to act now” was that Iran had started building “new facilities, underground bunkers” after the bombings of its nuclear facilities and missile arsenal last year. The missile and “nuclear bomb program” would otherwise have been unassailable “within months,” Netanyahu claimed. If we hadn’t acted now, “we wouldn’t have been able to do anything in the future.”

The US government had to make a difficult decision because of Israel’s determination to attack, Johnson said after an Iran briefing. He is convinced that the US government did the right thing. “The goal was not regime change,” Johnson said. Rather, the focus is on destroying the Iranian missile program and the Iranian navy.

US Vice President JD Vance told Fox News that in a “perfect world” the US would welcome someone who was willing to cooperate with the US coming to power in Iran. The primary goal of US President Donald Trump is that Iran never acquires a nuclear weapon. Ultimately, what happens to the leadership in Tehran is irrelevant, he said.