US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth tells reporters that Monday is seeing the largest volume of strikes on Iran since the start of the war, and warns that Tuesday will have even more.
He has made identical comments at earlier points in the war, insisting that the intensity of strikes has continually ramped up over the course of fighting.
The defense secretary also infuses his comments on the rescue of an airman shot down over Iran with references to Christianity and the language of his faith, saying the officer who evaded capture for more than a day was shot down on Good Friday, “hidden in a cave” on Saturday, and on Easter Sunday, “a pilot reborn, all home and accounted for.”
Hegseth says that when the airman was finally able to activate an emergency transponder, his first transmitted message was: “God is good.”
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