Defense secretary refuses to establish timeline for how long operation will continue in first public remarks since strikes<\/p>\n
The US secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth<\/a>, has called the joint US-Israeli strikes in Iran<\/a> the \u201cmost lethal and precise air power campaign in history\u201d, indicated the US did not plan to effect a democratic transition in Iran \u2013 and refused to establish a clear timeline for how long the US operation will continue.<\/p>\n In the first public remarks by an administration official since the war<\/a> began on Saturday, Hegseth also said that the US did not have \u201cboots on the ground\u201d in Iran but that he wouldn\u2019t speculate what \u201cwe will or will not do\u201d. He also said that four US service members had been killed by a ballistic missile that managed to penetrate allied air defenses.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Defense secretary refuses to establish timeline for how long operation will continue in first public remarks since strikes The US secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, has called the joint US-Israeli strikes in Iran the \u201cmost lethal and precise air power campaign in history\u201d, indicated the US did not plan to effect a democratic transition in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}