Defense secretary offers alternative TV headlines to reporters to more favourably reflect US military campaign in Iran \u2013 key US politics stories from 13 March 2026<\/p>\n
Pete Hegseth has used a press conference at the Pentagon to criticize journalists over their coverage of the war in Iran, at one point proposing alternative TV headlines.<\/p>\n
The US defense secretary claimed Iran had been left without a functioning air force, navy or missile defense network after 13 days of strikes, and said the combined US-Israeli air campaign had hit more than 15,000 targets since the war began.<\/p>\n
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