SecDef doubles down on claims Iran’s nuclear program is ‘obliterated’

Media reports about an initial battle damage assessment of Saturday’s Iran strikes have so rankled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that on Thursday he called the second press briefing of his tenure, just days after the first.Hegseth began his remarks by raging against the press—naming CNN, MSNBC, the Washington Post and the New York Times—for reporting on a preliminary Defense Intelligence Agency review of the strikes on three key Iranian nuclear facilities. The report said the