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Hegseth acknowledges Iran still has missiles stockpiled, but claims it can’t make more
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US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth acknowledges that Iran retains some missiles, even after the weeks-long US-Israel bombing campaign.
However, Tehran can no longer build new ones, he claims.
“They may have missiles, but they can’t build more right now,” Hegseth says during a cabinet meeting.
“They can’t build more drones right now, and they can’t build more ships, and so they came and cried ‘uncle’ to talk,” Hegseth claims.
Touting the US blockade of Iranian ports, Hegseth says, “No Iranian tanker around the globe is safe, and we’ve seen seizures all around the globe, choking off their economic life blood.”
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