Kanal13U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that the United States is winning its military operation against Iran “decisively, devastatingly and without mercy.” According to Associated Press speaking from the Pentagon’s briefing room, Hegseth said more forces, including jet fighters and bombers, will soon arrive in the region. He said that the U.S. “can sustain this fight, easily for as long as we need to.” “We are just getting started,” he said. “We are accelerating, not decelerating.” Hegseth also said that a torpedo from a U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship on Tuesday night, the first such attack on an enemy since World War II.
Earlier, explosions sounded in Tehran Wednesday as Iran’s war with the U.S. and Israel entered a fifth day following earlier strikes on an Iranian nuclear site and retaliatory strikes by the Islamic Republic across the Gulf region. The war has killed more than 1,000 people in Iran and dozens in Lebanon, while disrupting the supply of the world’s oil and gas, snarling international shipping, and stranding hundreds of thousands of travelers in the Middle East.
Both the U.S. Defense Secretary and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Wednesday that the U.S. military has adequate munitions for ongoing operations against Iran, despite concerns that stockpiles were running low. Chairman Dan Caine told reporters during a briefing from the Pentagon that the U.S. has “sufficient precision munitions for the task at hand, both on the offense and defense.” Pete Hegseth, the Defense Secretary added that the military used more advanced weapons at the start of the campaign but was switching GPS and laser-guided gravity bombs now that the U.S. has control of Iranian skies. Stockpiles of the advanced weapons remain “extremely strong.”
