US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth delivers a chilling warning to Tehran as nationwide anti-Khamenei protests intensify inside Iran. Speaking during the Pentagon’s “Arsenal of Freedom” tour at a Lockheed Martin facility in Fort Worth, Texas, Hegseth invoked President Donald Trump’s nuclear red line — revealing that exactly 60 days after Trump warned Iran it would “never have a nuclear bomb,” seven B-2 stealth bombers flew a 37-hour mission and dropped 14 precision munitions in a show of overwhelming American force. Hegseth said the operation was designed to “show the world what America is capable of,” while stressing the urgent need to ramp up weapons manufacturing to counter what he described as the “record speed” of emerging adversaries — signaling a potential new phase of US military escalation as unrest surges across the Islamic Republic.
