Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declared a total victory against Iran this morning, a day after President Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire to open the Strait of Hormuz.
“Operation Epic Fury was a historic and overwhelming victory on the battlefield — a capital ‘V’ MILITARY VICTORY.By any measure, Epic Fury decimated Iran’s military and rendered it combat ineffective for years to come.In less than 40 days, one of our Combatant Commands — CENTCOM — using less than 10% of America’s total combat power, dismantled one of the world’s largest militaries.The world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism proved utterly incapable of defending itself, its people, or its territory. We unleashed just a fraction of our strength, and Iran suffered total military defeat.”
Our military has wiped out Iran’s military capabilities:
Together with our Israeli partners, America’s military achieved every single objective on plan, on schedule, exactly as laid out from day one.Iran’s Navy is at the bottom of the sea, whether it’s the Solomani class, their frigate class, their prized drone aircraft carriers, submarines, mine layers sunk.Iran’s Air Force has been wiped out. Iran no longer has an air defense, any sort of a comprehensive air defense system. We own their skies.Their missile program is functionally destroyed. Launchers, production facilities, and existing stockpiles depleted and decimated and almost completely ineffective. Iran shot hundreds and hundreds of missiles and attack one way, attack drones at our aircraft carrier. They were obsessed with it, and they never got even close. Every single one of those shots easily shot down miles and miles away from the Abe Lincoln. They were blowing ammo into fantasy land.Contrast that with most significantly, in last night’s wave of more than 800 strikes, we finished completely destroying Iran’s defense industrial base, a core pillar of our mission objective. What little they have left buried in bunkers is all they will have. They can still shoot. We know that their command and control is so decimated they can’t really talk and coordinate. So they still may shoot here and there, but that would be very, very, very unwise, but they can no longer build missiles, build rockets, build launchers or build UAVs. Their factories have been razed to the ground, set back in historic fashion.
I love how this administration constantly stresses that Iran started this war 47 years ago when students, backed by the regime, invaded our embassy and held hostages for over a year.
Operation Epic Fury showed me that too many people only care about Americans when they’re on American soil.
The Iranian regime has killed around thousands of Americans since 1979.
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