The US secretary of state says he hopes Iranian people will overthrow the regime, as US military says six service members killed. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has suggested that a planned Israeli attack on Iran determined the timing of Washington’s assault on the government in Tehran. The top diplomat told reporters on Monday that Washington was aware Israel was going to attack Iran, and that Tehran would retaliate against US interests in the region, so US forces struck pre-emptively. “We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action,” Rubio said after a briefing with congressional leaders. “We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we didn’t pre-emptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher ...