The US defence secretary has claimed that President Trump ‘did not start’ the war with Iran but is ‘finishing it’, speaking at a Pentagon press conference about strikes on the country.
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Hegseth began by saying that for ’47 long years’, the Iranian regime has waged a ‘savage, one-sided war against America’
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