United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insisted on Sunday that his country's strikes against three nuclear facilities in Iran showed the international community that "the American deterrence is back" and that when President Donald Trump "speaks, the world should listen."
"Many presidents have dreamed of delivering the final blow to Iran's nuclear program, and none could, until President Trump," Hegseth said at a press conference at the Pentagon. He described the strikes as "an incredible and overwhelming success" that "devastated" and "obliterated" Tehran's "nuclear ambitions." Hegseth reiterated that Trump wants peace and urged Iran to "take that path."
Furthermore, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Dan "Razin" Caine said that, during Operation Midnight Hammer, the military used several deceiving tactics, including decoys, and claimed that "Iran's fighters did not fly, and it appears Iran's surface-to-air missile systems did not see us." The operation was carried out by B-2 fighter jets.
