Despite the large-scale military campaign that has already caused widespread destruction and deaths, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has said that Washington’s campaign is “just getting started”
It has been nearly a week since the US and Israel unleashed military warfare against Iran, roping in the rest of West Asia and shifting its affairs to a level not witnessed in the recent past. Despite the large-scale military campaign that has already caused widespread destruction and deaths, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has said that Washington’s campaign is “just getting started”.
“We are accelerating, not decelerating … More bombers and more fighters are arriving just today,” Hegseth told reporters, adding that the US would be using a “nearly unlimited.” He went on to say that the US and Israel would sow “death and destruction from the sky, all day long”.
Hegseth suggests the conflict could last 3 weeks or up to 2 months
Hegseth also signaled a possible longer time frame for the conflict than has previously been floated by the administration, saying it could last eight weeks but that the US has the munitions and the equipment to beat Iran in a war of attrition. He declined to set a specific time range, saying the specific duration of the war would depend on how it unfolds.
“You can say four weeks, but it could be six, it could be eight, it could be three,” Hegseth said. “Ultimately, we set the pace and the tempo. The enemy is off balance, and we’re going to keep them off balance.”
More forces are arriving in the region, including jet fighters and bombers, Hegseth said, and the US “will take all the time we need to make sure that we succeed.”
Nato intercepts Iranian missile near Turkey
A ballistic missile launched from Iran and heading towards Turkish airspace via Iraq and Syria was destroyed by NATO air defence systems, Turkish officials said Wednesday.
The defence ministry said it had been “engaged and neutralised by NATO air-and-missile defence assets deployed in the eastern Mediterranean”.
It did not specify the missile’s intended target. Iran has been hitting sites across the region in retaliation after the United States and Israel launched strikes against it on Saturday.
Iranian vessel sunk in the Indian Ocean
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US submarine torpedoed and sank an Iranian warship off Sri Lanka on Wednesday, marking a historic escalation in the US-Israel campaign against Iran, the Pentagon said.
The Iris Dena, on a friendly visit to India, “thought it was safe in international waters,” according to US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, who described the strike as a “quiet death” and stressed, “We are fighting to win.”
Sri Lankan authorities reported
at least 87 deaths, 61 missing, and 32 rescued sailors, many wounded.
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