0h 1min, may 5, 2026 y - Rubio: ‘Epic Fury’ Is Over

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that Operation Epic Fury, the roughly two month military operation that kicked off a U.S.-Israel war with Iran, had effectively ended, but the state of a fragile ceasefire remained up in the air, as attacks in the Strait of Hormuz continued.

“The operation is over,” Rubio said at a White House briefing. “We’re done with that stage of it.” In its place, Rubio clarified, the United States has shifted to a “defensive” posture focused more on restoring commercial passage through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway that carries a significant share of the world’s energy supplies and has effectively been choked off since the conflict intensified.

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