US defense secretary says Iran\u2019s energy infrastructure is \u2018not destroyed yet\u2019 while also lambasting the media<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s energy infrastructure is \u201cnot destroyed yet\u201d and the US is \u201clocked and loaded\u201d to finish the job, Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, said on Thursday as he called many of the press corps gathered the moral equivalent of the Pharisees who conspired to destroy Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n
Hegseth\u2019s comments from the Pentagon podium came as a naval blockade of Iranian ports began this week and he called on Tehran to accept a nuclear deal or face consequences for its remaining infrastructure, power generation and energy industry.<\/p>\n
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