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US Says Strikes Just Beginning, Can Outlast Iran Counterattacks
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8:42Now PlayingRetired General Frank McKenzie said the US will have plenty of munitions to continue attacking Iran's defenses and military capabilities until the Islamic Republic is forced to negotiate. McKenzie said that he believes Iran is making a strategic mistake by attacking US allies in the region like the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
The US said it would attack deeper into Iran and that the country’s military capabilities are “evaporating” as the Middle East war, now in its fifth day, continued to stress financial and energy markets.
The conflict showed no sign of abating on Wednesday, with Tehran again targeting Israel and Gulf states, and Israeli and US forces bombing more targets in the Islamic Republic. The US sank an Iranian warship in international waters, marking the first time since World War II that an American submarine has attacked a surface vessel.
“Iran’s capabilities are evaporating by the hour,” US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters. “While American strength grows fiercer, smarter and utterly dominant, more bombers and more fighters are arriving just today.”
Still, Iran’s attacks on neighboring countries and Israel continued to cause havoc. Tehran dismissed a report that its Ministry of Intelligence had reached out to the US to negotiate an end to the conflict as “pure falsehood.”
“We have no trust in the Americans and no intention of negotiating with the US,” Mohammad Mokhber, an adviser to the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who was slain in the first salvo of strikes, told Iran’s state-run television.
More than 1,000 people have died in Iran so far, and dozens elsewhere in the region. The US-Israeli war on Iran waged for a sixth day with little sign of easing, as the Islamic Republic vowed to intensify its retaliation and oil extended gains.
Arab states across the Middle East — as well as Israel — reported interceptions of Iranian missiles and drones on Thursday, with Qatar telling residents to remain indoors due to the high level of threat.
Tehran said it launched drone attacks on US forces in Iraq and Kuwait, and struck an oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, underlining the risk to shipping in the energy-rich region.
Israel said it carried out a twelfth wave of airstrikes on the Iranian capital, hitting military and intelligence assets, following attacks on the Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon. At least 1,230 people have died in Iran so far, and dozens elsewhere in the region. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps said retaliatory attacks will intensify in coming days, according to the Nour news agency. US President Donald Trump was similarly defiant on Wednesday, saying the US is “doing very well on the war front.” The White House said it was close to “complete and total control of Iranian airspace.”
Iran pledged to respond to the sinking of a warship off the coast of Sri Lanka — the first time since World War II that an American submarine has attacked a surface vessel — which widened the geographic reach of the conflict. In all, about a dozen nations have become embroiled since the US and Israel launched their campaign on Feb. 28.
Azerbaijan became the latest on Thursday, threatening to retaliate after two Iranian drones struck its territory. Iran denied an
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