US Tomahawk missile strikes Iranian girls school in new video; Iran women’s soccer team offered asylum in Australia; Trump threatens Iran over Strait of Hormuz closure to oil tankers
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned Iran that Tuesday would be “again our most intense day of attacks inside Iran.”
“Most fighters, most bombers, most strikes, intelligence is more refined and better than ever before,” he told the media at the Pentagon press conference.
“In the last 24 hours, we have witnessed Iran firing the lowest amount of missiles it has ever fired,” Hegseth said.
Amid mixed messages about the duration of the war, Hegseth again promised that the Trump administration would not enter another Middle East quagmire.
“This is not 2003, this is not endless nation-building… It’s not even close. This generation of soldiers and this president will not allow that,” he said.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, said U.S. forces had hit more than 5,000 targets and that their three goals included destroying Iran’s ballistic missile and drone capabilities, hitting the Iranian navy to allow passage through the Strait of Hormuz, and hitting “deeper into Iran’s military and industrial base.”
Caine also confirmed that the United States launched an attack on Iranian mine-laying vessels.
The war effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint for global oil and liquefied natural gas transportation; Tankers were unable to sail for more than a week and producers were forced to stop pumping as tanks filled.
AP via Reuters
