Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said that, despite the current ceasefire, the U.S. still reserved the right to conduct an Operation Midnight Hammer-style operation inside Iran to eliminate the Iranian regime’s stockpile of enriched uranium, insisting it was non-negotiable that Iran would never be allowed a nuclear weapon.
Just the News asked Hegseth during a Wednesday press conference at the Pentagon about any future peace deal with Iran and whether the Iranians handing over all of their enriched uranium and promising not to enrich any future uranium would be a non-negotiable term for the United States. The war secretary suggested both a diplomatic deal and military options both remained on the table, despite the U.S. and Iran agreeing to a two-week ceasefire on Tuesday.
"They’ll never have a nuclear weapon or the capability to get a path to one": Hegseth
“It’s always been non-negotiable that they won’t have nuclear capabilities. And so right now it’s buried and we’re watching it. We know exactly what they have, and they know that,” Hegseth said. “And they [the Iranians] will either give us — which the president has laid, they’ll give it to us voluntarily, we’ll get it, we’ll take it, we’ll take it out — or if we have to do something else ourselves, like we did with Midnight Hammer or something like that, we reserve that opportunity. But what’s clear, what the Iranian — the new Iranian regime — knows, is they’ll never have a nuclear weapon or the capability to get a path to one.”
