🚨 JUST IN: Secretary Marco Rubio is on Capitol Hill to brief members of Congress on the Iran strikes And he’s CLEARING UP confusion around Operation Epic Fury, making three key points: 1. "The United States is conducting an operation to eliminate the threat of Iran's short range ballistic missiles and the threat posed by their Navy particularly to naval assets." 2. "It was abundantly clear that if Iran came under attack by anyone, the United States or Israel or anyone, they were going to respond and respond against the United States." 3. "Third, the assessment was made that if we stood and waited for that attack to come first, before we hit them, we would suffer MUCH higher casualties, and so 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 strike them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties and perhaps even higher for those killed."