Iran’s defense industrial base is ‘functionally defeated’: Hegseth

Fourteen days into the war on Iran, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared the country’s ability to develop and manufacture new weapons “functionally defeated,” noting as well its shrinking missile force, navy “at the bottom of the Persian Gulf,” and disabled air force.Missile attacks are down 90 percent and one-way attack drone strikes are down 95 percent since the first day of Iranian retaliation, Hegseth added in the latest update to the Pentagon metric. &n