The Pentagon chief claims Tehran \u2018cannot outlast\u2019 US as strikes intensify and civilian toll climbs<\/p>\n
The US will have complete, uncontested control of Iranian airspace within days, the Pentagon chief, Pete Hegseth<\/a>, declared Wednesday, saying Iran \u201ccannot outlast\u201d American military power and that its capabilities were \u201cevaporating by the hour\u201d.<\/p>\n The joint US-Israeli operation to attack Iran, which began on Saturday, had already delivered \u201ctwice the air power of shock and awe of Iraq in 2003\u201d and \u201cseven times the intensity of Israel\u2019s previous operations against Iran during the 12-day war\u201d, Hegseth claimed at a press conference alongside Dan Caine, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Pentagon chief claims Tehran \u2018cannot outlast\u2019 US as strikes intensify and civilian toll climbs The US will have complete, uncontested control of Iranian airspace within days, the Pentagon chief, Pete Hegseth, declared Wednesday, saying Iran \u201ccannot outlast\u201d American military power and that its capabilities were \u201cevaporating by the hour\u201d. The joint US-Israeli operation to … 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-68050","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\/68050","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=68050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}