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By Lawrence Agbo
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s trip to Israel on Monday has been cancelled after a joint US-Israeli attack on Iran, the State Department said.
Dylan Johnson, the assistant secretary of state for global public affairs, wrote the statement on X on Saturday.
“Due to current circumstances, Secretary Rubio will no longer travel to Israel on March 2.”
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The cancelled trip to Israel was due to the wave of strikes on Saturday by the United States and Israel against targets in Iranian cities, triggering explosions and columns of smoke in the capital, Tehran.
Trump released a statement that Washington’s goal was “eliminating imminent threats” from Iran, while Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz described the action as a “preventive strike.”
Trump had said in a social media video that “The United States’ military began major combat operations in Iran.”
He added, “We are going to destroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground. It will be totally, again, obliterated. We’re going to annihilate their navy.”
