{"id":192400,"date":"2025-06-13T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=192400"},"modified":"2025-06-13T11:00:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T18:00:31","slug":"secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-on-strikes-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=192400","title":{"rendered":"Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Strikes on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;\u201cTonight, Israel took unilateral action against Iran. We are not involved in strikes against Iran and our top priority is protecting American forces in the region. Israel advised us that they believe this action was necessary for its self-defense.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/statedept25.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-187845\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/statedept25.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/statedept25.jpg 400w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/statedept25-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/statedept25-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/statedept25-30x30.jpg 30w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>President Trump and the Administration have taken all necessary steps to protect our forces and remain in close contact with our regional partners. Let me be clear: Iran should not target U.S. interests or personnel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;\u201cTonight, Israel took unilateral action against Iran. We are not involved in strikes against Iran and our top priority is protecting American forces in the region. Israel advised us that they believe this action was necessary for its self-defense. &nbsp; &nbsp; President Trump and the Administration have taken all necessary steps to protect our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/statedept25.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192401,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192400\/revisions\/192401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/187845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}