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Hegseth says Iran’s military output ‘severely weakened’ after 15,000 strikes

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US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth says Iran’s military capabilities have been significantly degraded after Israeli and US forces carried out more than 15,000 strikes across the country, claiming Tehran’s missile launch volume has fallen 90 percent and the use of one-way attack drones has dropped 95 percent since hostilities began.

Speaking at a press briefing, Hegseth said Iran no longer has the ability to build additional weapons and dismissed a public statement by Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei as weak, suggesting he was wounded and ‘likely disfigured’.

Khamenei took power after his father was killed on the opening day of what Tehran described as an unprovoked US-Israeli attack. Hegseth also said Washington was still weighing options over whether the US Navy would escort oil tankers through Strait of Hormuz, describing the waterway as tactically complex, as global concern over oil supply disruption intensified.



At the same time, the US Treasury temporarily eased sanctions on Russian oil shipments loaded before March 12, covering about 100 million barrels, while Brent crude remained volatile above US$100 a barrel. The latest developments come as Donald Trump said tankers should be prepared to cross the Strait of Hormuz and as US and Israeli airstrikes reportedly hit Tehran during a government-organised Quds Day march.

Assessing the full extent of damage in Tel Aviv and other parts of Israel remains difficult, as strict military censorship rules prohibit the public dissemination of footage or detailed reporting that could reveal the impact and location of strikes.

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  1. …’severely weakened’…what delusional bulls***!!!
    Iran is happily laying waste to Israel, and it’s long overdue based on the Israeli-imposed holocaust, holodomor and violations of International Law in Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem. Add to that Lebanon, Syria, Iran and the J3wi$h covert Mossad war against the non-J3wi$h West, and it’s now obvious on what they are planning for the rest of the world after they are finished with killing everything in sight in their region before moving on to other nations.
    Hegseth, Trump & *Nutanyahu (*Mileikowsky) are all mentally-ill totalitarian DICKtators with delusions of grandeur, with the very great deficit of the Dunning-Kruger Effect w/ the Peter Principle in play, now costing thousands of lives in present real time, and perhaps hundreds of millions of lives when their ammo runs out in 6 weeks and nukes are then used.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cRCS0Gnhv8
    Nutanyahyu goaded Trump into this due to Trump being compromised (ie the Epstein Files…) and allowing for AIPAC, ADL, and J3wi$h donors to influence and DICKtate U.S. policies!
    Hegseth was a bully while serving in the military, and is a bully today. He is egocentric, self-centered, and will get a big wake-up call when he’s whisked-off to a nuclear bomb shelter with only minutes / seconds to spare.
    Combat Veterans in the U.S. are already preparing for Civil War ll as a result of Trump’s betrayal of MAGA, lying to MAGA, and threatening to throw- U.S. Citizens out of the country for criticising Israel, or for violating anti-semitic ‘hate laws’, etc.
    Israel (and before 1948, Judea) have run and compromised the U.S. since 1913 with establishing the Federal Reserve Bank Act, which was accomplished by the Elders of Zion who caught U.S. President Woodrow Wilson having an affair with a teenaged girl (sound familiar?)
    Check out the ending to the below…
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNPnbI1arSE&list=RDsNPnbI1arSE&start_radio=1
    There is no off-ramp in this war; Trump doesn’t has not and will not understand the depth of the war he has gotten the world into!

  2. Yet you still can’t get ships through the straight and have had to resort to threats about destroying Iran’s refineries, to coerce compliance which, thus far, hasn’t worked. And they haven’t capitulated and they haven’t stopped the attacks or accepted any overtures to negotiate with you. Oh and are you still in your embassies in places likes Saudi Arabia? I heard you guys had run away and couldn’t even help you own citizens there?

    So hey, what’s up Pete? Is this what the US winning a war looks like?

    • Exactly! This greasy, hair combed like a gangster is the type of military officer who would have no problem in not only killing the enemy, but also his own men!
      Too much testerone, too many truth-exposing tattoos, and a macho-fuelled badass mentality that serves Hegseth with nothing more than psychopathic and Dunning-Kruger ideals of self-delusions.

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