Irate Hegseth claims Iran’s leaders are ‘rats’ in hiding and calls for a ‘patriotic press’ rewrite headlines

A visibly irate Pete Hegseth compared Iran’s leaders to “rats” on the run, and urged a “patriotic press” to rewrite headlines about the war.

In a press briefing on Friday morning, the defense secretary boasted that the U.S. and Israel are “decimating the radical Iranian regime’s military in a way the world has never seen before.”

“We said it would not be a fair fight, and it has not been,” the former Fox News host told reporters.

Thirteen days into a war that has engulfed the broader Middle East, over 15,000 Iranian targets have been hit, obliterating the nation’s air defenses, air force, and navy — while its missile capabilities have plummeted by 90 percent, Hegseth said.

“Iran’s leadership is in no better shape,” Hegseth said. “Desperate and hiding, they’ve gone underground, cowering. That’s what rats do.”

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Source: independent.co.uk