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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Iran will have no choice but to surrender, "whether they know it or not"

  • On Friday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said President Trump's demand for Iran's 'unconditional surrender' will occur whether they admit it or not, and he stated the U.S. had struck 3,000 targets inside Iran.
  • Citing long-term threats, Hegseth said Iran refused to come to the table on nukes, 'They should've come to the table and said, 'OK, we get it. We're not going to have nukes.' And they haven't,'
  • Hegseth said U.S. and Israeli airpower are overwhelming, noting, 'Our projections of munitions are well beyond what we would need' and 'We can crossload for allies if need be, always ensuring that our forces and our troops and our bases are taken care of first.'
  • On Sunday, Human Rights Activists in Iran report more than 1,600 Iranians killed, including 168 people, mostly children, at a southern school during U.S. attacks, and Hegseth said 'things like this don't happen without casualties'.
  • International monitors report Iran still holds more than 970 pounds of near bomb-grade uranium, and Hegseth said, 'I would never tell you or anybody else what our options are'; the U.S. has not deployed ground forces but tracks Russia’s intelligence support to Iran.
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First, the US President calls on Iran to "unconditional capitulation", then immediately relativizes the historical term. What is really behind this demand and how are the experiences with this kind of war ending?

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mycharisma.com broke the news in on Sunday, March 8, 2026.
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