The US Secretary of War claimed “President Trump got the last laugh”
The head of an alleged Iranian operation to ‘kill Donald Trump’ has been ‘hunted down and killed’ according to the U.S the Secretary of War.
U.S. military action on Tuesday (March 3) located and eliminated the head of the mission, Pete Hegseth described, adding that President Donald Trump ‘got the last laugh’. “Also yesterday, the leader of the unit who attempted to assassinate President Trump has been hunted down and killed,” he told reporters.
“Iran tried to kill President Trump. And President Trump got the last laugh,” he added before asserting that the U.S. was winning its military operation against Iran “decisively, devastatingly and without mercy.”
Joint airstrikes conducted by the U.S. and Israel killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Saturday (February 28) with the deceased ayatollah’s son Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei primed to replace him. In response to the strikes, Iran has hit multiple Gulf nations, such as Saudi Arabia, Oman and the UAE.
Sec. Hegseth says more forces including jet fighters and bombers soon will arrive in the Middle East to assist U.S. operations and that the country “will take all the time we need to make sure that we succeed”. Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff insisted American forces have adequate munitions for ongoing operations against Iran.
Referring to drones Hegseth said: “We have pushed every counter-UAS system possible forward, sparing no expense or capability. Like I said, this does not mean we stop everything.” Meanwhile, Hegseth confirmed a torpedo from a US submarine sank an Iranian warship and that the Tuesday night strike was the first such attack by the U.S. on an enemy since the Second World War.
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“An American submarine sunk an Iranian warship that thought it was safe in international waters,” Hegseth said. “Instead, it was sunk by a torpedo.”
The last wartime sinking of a ship by a submarine took place during the Falklands War when Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano was torpedoed by the British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror.
Authorities report 32 people were rescued from the Iranian ship that was reported in distress off the coast of Sri Lanka, with 140 people believed to be missing. It was not immediately clear what happened to the ship or how many people were on board. The US military said previously it had already destroyed 17 Iranian vessels, and that its goal was sinking “the entire navy”.