# US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insists that American strikes on Iranian nuclear sites were a success, backing President Donald Trump and berating the media for questioning the results of the operation. Hegseth told journalists at the Pentagon Trump created the conditions to end the war, decimating, choose your word, obliterating, destroying Iran’s nuclear capabilities. Yesterday Trump insisted that Iran did not manage to move nuclear materials, including enriched uranium, ahead of the US military action.
Hegseth backs Trump’s claims of success against Iran’s nuclear capabilities