Rubio raises potential for preemptive strikes against Iran: ‘I hope it doesn’t come to that’

Secretary of State Marco Rubio raised the potential for the U.S. forces to conduct preemptive strikes against Iran and emphasized that the country’s regime is at its weakest point in decades during a Wednesday hearing in the Senate.  Rubio told senators that the Trump administration’s buildup of U.S. assets in the Middle East, which was…