Hegseth: second operation against Iran won’t lead to another ‘forever war’

The Pentagon is adamant that the new U.S. bombing campaign in Iran will not lead to another decades-long war, but Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth refused Monday to repeat any of the possible timelines offered by his boss over the past 24 hours, nor to take the deployment of U.S. troops into Iran off the table. In his first press conference since the last time the U.S. struck Iran, in June, Hegseth said the U.S. chose to strike conventional Iranian military assets because they were part of Te