Hegseth says military was ‘locked and loaded’ to carry out Trump’s Iran civilization threat

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the U.S. military was “locked and loaded” to carry out President Trump’s threat to eliminate Iranian civilization, a warning that was met with condemnation from Democrats and other critics. 

“We had a target set, locked and loaded, of infrastructure, bridges, power plants. Remember, this is a terror regime. The military regime used all of these things for dual use, to fund their military to fund their their terror campaigns,” Hegseth told reporters during the Wednesday morning briefing. “We had a lot of legitimate targets. They knew exactly the scope of what we were capable of.”

On Tuesday morning, the president said in a post on Truth Social that a “whole civilization will die tonight never to be brought back again” unless “something revolutionary wonderful” happens to make a deal agreed by both Tehran and........

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