Marco Rubio and Donald Trump. Photo credit: Pool/ABACA / Abaca Press / Profimedia
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will not travel to Israel on Monday, as he had announced, following Saturday's joint US-Israeli strike against Iran and Tehran's retaliation in the region, the State Department said.
“Due to current circumstances, Secretary Rubio will no longer travel to Israel on March 2,” Dylan Johnson, the assistant secretary of state for global public affairs, wrote on the X platform on Saturday, reports AFP.
A day earlier, the State Department had announced that Rubio would travel to Israel on Monday for a lightning visit focused on Iran, although the threat of intervention against Iran was still looming.
Deputy Secretary of State Dylan Johnson even said that Rubio's visit would go ahead despite the fact that the US had requested that non-essential personnel and family members of those stationed in Israel leave the country.
However, the State Department did not accredit any journalist to accompany Marco Rubio on this trip.
