Secretary of War Pete Hegseth: Iran's battered military, the IRGC specifically...

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has provided new details on recent Iranian maritime seizures, describing them as acts of piracy. He stated the targeted vessels were not American or Israeli but 'just commercial ships' and that Iran's military, the IRGC specifically, has been reduced to a gang of pirates with a flag. Hegseth said they cloak their aggression in slogans, but the world now sees them for what they are. This rhetoric underscores the Trump administration's hardline stance against Iran's actions in regional waterways.