LIVE: Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth and General Dan Caine hold briefing on the U.S.-Iran war

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine deliver remarks at the Pentagon on the U.S.-Iran war on Friday. Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, said Thursday that the closure of the Strait of Hormuz maritime passage should be continued as a “tool to pressure the enemy,” in his first public statement since being appointed. Khamenei also said all U.S. military bases in the Middle East should close immediately and “those bases will be attacked,” in televi ...