Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/X Secretary of State Marco Rubio has offered what appears to be a bizarre conspiracy theory as a reason why President Donald Trump launched his war on Iran. Rubio insisted that the U.S. fired first as a “preemptive” strike against Tehran. The president had not explained why he started the war other than to claim Iran represented an “imminent threat” to the United States. Read more at The Daily Beast.