The war in Iran continues on the fourth day of conflict. The Iranian Red Crescent has raised the death toll to 787 since the US and Israeli attack on the country began, with an offensive that does not stop and that could last for “several weeks”, according to Donald Trump himself.
In the last few hours, a video from the Pentagon shows the force with which the US is making its way into the Iranian country. In the images you can see how North American forces attack a truck by air and also how structures in Iran are bombed.
The “hardest blows” for Iran “are yet to come”
From the United States they assure that the “hardest blows” may still come to Iran. In the words of the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, the attacks that Washington is preparing will be “even more severe.”
Operation Epic Fury, named after the US administration, will continue its course as long as there are “targets” standing. “We are going to continue like this as long as it is necessary to achieve the objectives,” explained Rubio, who believes that the world will be “a safer place” when the operation ends.
In this sense, he affirms that the US priority is to “deny Iran the ability to use ballistic missiles to threaten” the population: “Regardless of who governs that country in a year, it will not have these ballistic missiles or these drones to threaten us.”
The Pentagon justifies the attack
The North American Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, follows the same line as Marco Rubio and assures that the attack on Iran responds to Tehran’s lack of negotiating will, insisting that the authorities of the Islamic Republic were gaining time in contacts with Washington while maintaining their nuclear ambitions.
Thus, the head of the Pentagon insists that the Trump Administration did “everything possible for real diplomacy” and envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner “tried again and again and again, with sincere efforts, to achieve peace” but in front Iran was “not negotiating” but “buying time.”
“The previous regime had every opportunity to reach a peaceful and sensible agreement. But Tehran was not negotiating. It was buying time and buying time to replenish its missile arsenals and reactivate its nuclear ambitions,” he argues in the Pentagon’s first public appearance since the attack launched against Iran.
