Hegseth faces further grilling over Iran war strategy and costs – US politics live

Defense secretary to be quizzed by lawmakers on Senate armed services committee after bad-tempered session in House yesterday

A message from Iran’s supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei will shortly be released on the occasion of “national Persian Gulf day“, the country’s state media said on Thursday.

Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth has previously said that Iran’s new leader, who has not been seen in public since the war began, is “disfigured”.