Pete Hegseth to hold news conference today on Iran strikes; Trump says ‘sucess was legendary but…'
US President Donald Trump announced that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will hold a 'major' press conference Thursday morning, as the administration pushes to quell doubts over the damage done inflicted by American strikes on Iran's nuclear sites.
"Hegseth, together with Military Representatives, will be holding a Major News Conference tomorrow morning at 8 A.M. EST at The Pentagon, in order to fight for the Dignity of our Great American Pilots," Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Wednesday.
"The News Conference will prove both interesting and irrefutable," he said.
Trump on Wednesday rejected an early intelligence assessment that the United States strikes inflicted only a marginal setback on Iran's nuclear program, insisting that his country's spies did not have the full picture and defending his own swift conclusion that American bombs and missiles delivered a crushing blow.
'This was a devastating attack, and it knocked them for a loop,' Trump said as his administration scrambled to support his claims, made only hours after the attack, that Iranian nuclear facilities were 'completely and fully obliterated.'
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