US Secretary of State Marco Rubio tells a House Foreign Affairs Committee that the “war with Iran is over,” while US and related strikes continue. Rubio says the United States is no longer conducting sustained strikes inside Iran to “degrade their military” because an operation named “Epic Fury” has ended. He frames the shift as a conclusion of the prior phase of the US-Israeli campaign.
The reports describe “Operation Epic Fury” as the US-Israeli effort that begins with strikes on Iran on February 28 and then expands across the wider Middle East. Despite Rubio’s statement that the war is over, the articles note that deadly strikes still occur, indicating that active military actions continue even as the US characterizes the broader conflict phase as concluded. The accounts do not provide additional details on which targets are struck, whether the tempo of strikes has changed, or how “Epic Fury is over” is reflected operationally. Overall, the coverage focuses on Rubio’s claim of termination of the sustained inside-Iran strike campaign amid ongoing violence.
