Hegseth says hopes Iranians seize ‘opportunity’, says change not US objective
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday he hoped the Iranian people would take advantage of what he described as a new opportunity, while stressing it was not a US objective to drive internal change.
“I would love to see the Iranian people take advantage of this opportunity,” he said at a Pentagon briefing.
He said Iranians had been “oppressed” and subjected to “horrible things,” adding that internal change “was not our objective in this effort.”
