A visibly irate Pete Hegseth has compared Iran’s leaders to “rats” in hiding and urged a "patriotic press” to rewrite headlines about the deadly, costly and escalating war.
“The U.S. is decimating the radical Iranian regime’s military in a way the world has never seen before,” the defense secretary boasted at a Friday morning press briefing. “We said it would not be a fair fight, and it has not been.”
