{"id":53562,"date":"2026-03-05T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=53562"},"modified":"2026-03-05T07:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:07:06","slug":"hegseth-brags-of-death-and-destruction-as-us-and-israeli-airstrikes-massacre-civilians-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=53562","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth Brags of \u2018Death and Destruction\u2019 as US and Israeli Airstrikes Massacre Civilians in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>According to a US-based rights group and Iranian medical officials, more than 1,000 civilians have been killed in just four days<\/h3>\n<p>Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Wednesday\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9_OnFPaMMnE\">boasted<\/a>\u00a0of the \u201cdeath and destruction\u201d the US military can rain down on Iran, as reports say that US and Israeli airstrikes have killed over 1,000 Iranian civilians in just four days.<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth said at a press briefing that the US and Israel should soon have \u201ccomplete control of Iranian skies\u201d and that it would mean \u201cIranian leaders looking up and seeing only US and Israeli airpower.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery minute of every day until we decide it\u2019s over, and Iran will be able to do nothing about it. B-2s, B-52s, B1s, Predator drones, fighters controlling the skies, picking targets, death and destruction from the sky all day long,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth said the war wasn\u2019t meant to be a \u201cfair fight\u201d and mentioned that the administration has loosened the rules of engagement for the military.<\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2026\/03\/04\/hegseth-brags-of-death-and-destruction-as-us-and-israeli-airstrikes-massacre-civilians-in-iran\/\">https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2026\/03\/04\/hegseth-brags-of-death-and-destruction-as-us-and-israeli-airstrikes-massacre-civilians-in-iran\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}