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Hegseth Tells Iran Security Forces to ‘Choose Wisely’

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth denied that the conflict with Iran would turn into the sort of endless war that President Donald Trump has repeatedly sworn to avoid, but declined to say how much longer it would last. #politics #iran #israel #trump #worldnews

“This is not Iraq, this is not endless,” Hegseth said Monday during a press conference at the Pentagon. “Our generation knows better and so does this president.” At the same time, he said, “I would never hang a time frame from our perspective.”

The briefing from Hegseth was the first media availability by a top administration official since the US and Israel launched the campaign against Iran early Saturday. He justified the attack by saying that Iran had a “conventional gun to our head” as it sought an atomic weapon, and that negotiations aimed at getting a nuclear deal amounted to nothing m

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