Pete Hegseth Put On Blast Over His Big Lie On Iran Attack: ‘Unqualified Piece Of Trash’ | EUROtoday

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spewed schoolyard-like discuss to reporters on Monday when he tried to painting Iran, and never the U.S., because the nation that began the escalating warfare within the Middle East over the weekend.

Hegseth, in an early morning press convention, claimed that Iran has “waged a savage, one-sided war” for “47 long years” even when the nation’s management didn’t “declare it openly.”

“We didn’t start this war, but under President Trump, we are finishing it,” he pressured.

While Hegseth broadly framed the warfare by pointing to a gaggle of imprecise examples reminiscent of anti-American chants from Iranians and numerous assaults in international locations outdoors of Iran, a joint U.S.-Israeli navy offensive focusing on Iran, in truth, led to the lethal occasions of the previous few days within the Middle East.

Elsewhere within the presser, Hegseth piggybacked off Trump’s discuss of being hands-off to any potential regime modifications in Iran after America’s lethal assault killed the nation’s supreme chief, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

“This is not a so-called regime change war, but the regime sure did change, and the world is better off for it,” stated Hegseth, who has insisted the battle wouldn’t morph right into a “forever war” just like the one in Iraq.

Critics on social media swiftly clowned Hegseth over his whopper of a lie on Iran, together with Christian writer John Pavlovitz, who wrote on X, “Actually, ya’ll totally started it @SecWar, you unqualified piece of trash.”