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Rubio Says Iran Would Have Been Able to Launch Missiles, Drones in a Year and a Half

U.S. and Israeli strikes targeted Iranian missile and drone facilities to prevent threats within 18 months, aiming to disrupt Iran's nuclear coercion strategy, officials said.

Marco Rubio said Monday during a press briefing that the U.S. had to strike Iran because they would have been able to launch missiles in a year and a half.

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The secretary of state defended the preventive action of the United States and said that not acting would have caused more victims and greater losses.

The head of American diplomacy, Marco Rubio, said in an interview to journalists this afternoon (2), that the U.S. attack on Ir was a way of defending themselves. Read more (03/02/2026)

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The National Desk broke the news in on Monday, March 2, 2026.
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