Pete Hegseth claims Iran ‘begged’ for ceasefire deal to finish onslaught and threats from Trump | EUROtoday

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claimed Iran “begged” for the ceasefire after President Donald Trump’s threats to wipe the nation’s civilization off the map until a deal was made by a deadline Tuesday night.

“No other president has shown the courage and resolve of this commander-in-chief,” Hegseth stated throughout a Wednesday morning press convention. “President Trump forged this moment. Iran begged for this ceasefire, and we all know it.”

Hegseth claimed that Iran’s missile program had been “functionally destroyed” and that its navy “is at the bottom of the sea.” Iran’s air power has additionally been “wiped out,” he claimed, including: “We own their skies.”

The U.S. carried out greater than 800 strikes on Iran Tuesday night time earlier than the ceasefire took impact, Hegseth stated, including that the strikes “completely” destroyed Iran’s protection industrial base.

“They can no longer build rockets, build launchers or build UAVs. Their factories have been razed to the ground. Set back in historic fashion,” Hegseth stated.

Had Iran declined Trump’s two-week ceasefire deal, the U.S. navy’s subsequent targets “would have been their power plants, their bridges and oil and energy infrastructure,” Hegseth stated.

“Targets they could not defend, and could not realistically rebuild. It would’ve taken them decades and we were locked and loaded. They couldn’t defend against it,” he added.

Iran’s new supreme chief, Mojtaba Khamenei, “understood that a deal was far better than the fate that awaited them,” Hegseth claimed. Khamenei is the son of Ali Khamenei, Iran’s earlier supreme chief who was killed within the preliminary U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran in late February.

Hegseth additionally claimed that the supreme chief is “wounded and disfigured.”

“This new regime is out of options and out of time, so they cut a deal,” Hegseth stated. “They know this agreement means they will never, ever possess a nuclear weapon. Under the terms, any nuclear material they should not have will be removed.”

Ahead of Hegseth’s press convention, Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform that the U.S. would “work closely with Iran,” that there had been a “very productive” regime change and that there could be “no enrichment or Uranium.”

Speaking to reporters Wednesday after the press convention, Hegseth stated that Iran will both give the U.S. its enriched uranium or the U.S. will “take it out.”

Hegseth additionally famous that the U.S. navy “will be hanging around. Not going anywhere.”

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