US War Secretary Pete Hegseth said Saturday that Iran faces a choice between abandoning its nuclear ambitions and reaching a deal or facing violent devastating military action, Anadolu reports.
Iran’s going to have a choice to make real quick about whether they’re going to give those up at the table or face the kind of devastation that America can bring and will bring swiftly if necessary, Hegseth told Reserve Officers’ Training Corps cadets and military recruits at the University of Tennessee.
He accused Tehran of building a large conventional missile arsenal to deter military action while pursuing nuclear ambitions, arguing that US military strength was essential to forcing adversaries to negotiate.
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Hegseth also said that Iran funds the counter proxies like Hezbollah, funds the proxies in the Houthi’s in Yemen, adding that Washington had sought to deter attacks on US forces and shipping.
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The defense chief framed the policy on Iran as part of US President Donald Trump’s wider effort to reassert American power, including confronting drug cartels and limiting the influence of Iran, China and Russia in Latin America.
Referring to Venezuela, Hegseth said the US operation there would have generational implications, describing the country as a strategic partner and highlighting its oil resources.
He said Washington was seeking to push its rivals out of the Western Hemisphere while strengthening its military presence and partnerships across the Americas.
Middle East Monitor / ABC Flash Point News 2026.
Even though Iran has repeatedly claimed that it’s nuclear program is civilian – Hegseth hypocrisy is the US own arsenal of nuclear weapons which it has used on defenseless Japanese civilians while Japan had already surrendered to the USA. War is a racket – Remember those non existing WMD in Iraq or the fact that Iraq’s oil fields had already been carved up contracts signed long before the lie based invasion – [including Russian and Chinese oil companies] War is a racket – it’s all about the money and Iran has an economic system that’s independent from that of empire.… Read more »
And the Bankers are ???——– quote– “I don’t care who runs a country as long as I control the money “.
Hegseth is former Fox TV host.
Even when he’s gone is no guarantee that the policies will change – the US has been waging wars for over 93% of the time since 1776 or 233 years out of a total of 250.
One wonders what the percentage is for the Genocidal Israeli Apartheid state
Thanks for the info AM you will have seen and heard him more than me.
In other words Total War as Herr Hitler said when Germany was bombed -if I was running Russia I would have nukes in Iran aimed at US bases and Israel as well as hypersonic aircraft destroyers – I would not abandon a friend to a proven outright Dictator who is not protecting his own country but a wee Middle East country run by Zionists who also run the USA/UK/EU.
That would implement a strategic defeat for the global warmongers !
Let the moron keep his dumb mouth open. He is ideal for the orange conman’s administration!
No, no, no. The other one is the moron, this is his idiot.