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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused Iran of taking the satellite hostage done its retaliatory strikes and insisted that the United States was connected way with its warfare objectives.
"I deliberation we are each seeing close present the menace this clerical authorities poses to the portion and to the world. They are trying to clasp the satellite hostage," Mr. Rubio said astatine an lawsuit astatine the State Department.
Israel-Iran war updates connected March 9, 2026
"They are attacking neighboring countries, their vigor infrastructure, their civilian population," helium said.
"The nonsubjective of this ngo is to destruct their quality to proceed to bash that, and we are good connected our mode to achieving that."
The United States and Israel attacked Iran connected February 28 and promptly killed the Islamic republic's longtime ultimate leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Since then, Iran has fired disconnected a barrage of missiles and drones connected Israel and connected Gulf Arab monarchies, which are cardinal bases for U.S. forces.
Mr. Rubio was speaking astatine an lawsuit to grant wrongfully detained Americans and hostages. He was joined by household members of Robert Levinson, a erstwhile FBI cause who disappeared successful 2007 connected the Iranian land of Kish.
The United States concluded successful 2020 that the Iranian authorities was progressive successful his presumed death.
Levinson was said to beryllium connected a ngo to analyse cigaret counterfeiting, though The Washington Post reported successful 2013 that helium had been moving with the CIA and had gone connected a rogue ngo to stitchery intelligence.
Levinson is "particularly a reminder of the quality of the authorities that we're dealing with successful Tehran," Rubio said.
"They were founded, unfortunately, connected an battle connected the brave men and women of our overseas and civilian service," Rubio said, referring to the taking of hostages astatine the US embassy successful Tehran by Islamic zealots aft they toppled the US-aligned shah successful 1979.
