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Department of State @StateDept - Video: SECRETARY RUBIO: The hardest hits are yet to come. The next phase will be even more punishing on Iran than it is right now. The world will be a safer place when we are done with Operation Epic Fury.
https://x.com/StateDept/status/2028587983419392349

Department of State @StateDept - Video: REPORTER: Why not notify Congress about this?
SECRETARY RUBIO: We did. We notified congressional leadership. We briefed the Gang of Eight twice. We have complied with the law 100%.
https://x.com/StateDept/status/2028587446531747888

Department of State @StateDept - Video: SECRETARY RUBIO: This is such a critical mission to undertake now, while they are at their weakest point, and not a year from now where they could inflict even more damage – and perhaps already be behind that point of immunity.
https://x.com/StateDept/status/2028585952461922734

Department of State @StateDept - Video: SECRETARY RUBIO: President Trump would love for the people of Iran to use this opportunity to rise up and remove these leaders, but the objective of this mission is to make sure Iran doesn’t have nuclear weapons that can threaten us and our allies in the region.
https://x.com/StateDept/status/2028583482390106396

Department of State @StateDept - Video: SECRETARY RUBIO: We would love for there to be an Iran that is not governed by radical clerics. If there's something we can do to help the people of Iran down the road we would be open to it, but our objective is the destruction of Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities.
https://x.com/StateDept/status/2028582156805534165

Department of State @StateDept - Video: SECRETARY RUBIO: Our mission is the destruction of Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities and their ability to manufacture them. That said, we hope the Iranian people can overthrow this government and establish a new future for their country.
https://x.com/StateDept/status/2028581123354235146

Department of State @StateDept - Video: SECRETARY RUBIO: There was absolutely an imminent threat. We knew that if Iran was attacked, even by someone else, they would immediately come after us and we were NOT going to sit there and absorb a blow before we responded.
https://x.com/StateDept/status/2028580855187226858

Department of State @StateDept - Video: SECRETARY RUBIO: The Ayatollah was a radical cleric. That entire regime is led by radical clerics who make decisions on the basis of their view of theology, which is an apocalyptic one. That has to be taken seriously.
https://x.com/StateDept/status/2028580362469724386

Department of State @StateDept - Video: SECRETARY RUBIO: The purpose of Operation Epic Fury is to destroy Iran’s missile capacity.
https://x.com/StateDept/status/2028577362019836053

Department of State @StateDept - Video: SECRETARY RUBIO: 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. That is what the U.S. is focused on right now and is doing quite successfully.
https://x.com/StateDept/status/2028576668588073236

Department of State @StateDept - Americans in the Middle East region who need consular assistance can call 24/7 at +1-202-501-4444 from overseas or +1-888-407-4747 from the U.S. and Canada.
https://x.com/StateDept/status/2028536648456097901

DOJ Civil Rights Division @CivilRights - Defendant Charged with Damaging the Brooklyn Headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch Movement
The Civil Rights Division will continue working to protect religious communities and prosecute attacks on sacred spaces.
🔗: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/defendant-charged-damaging-brooklyn-headquarters-chabad-lubavitch-movement
https://x.com/CivilRights/status/2028592324347883858
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