Pentagon chief says U.S. ready to restart strikes on Iran if no deal
Hegseth said the Pentagon has enough stockpiles to resume attacks while Washington and Tehran remain far apart on a deal.
- On Saturday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stated the United States is ready to restart attacks on Iran if negotiators fail to reach a deal, citing ample munitions stockpiles during remarks at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore.
- The conflict launched by the United States and Israel on February 28, 2026, has killed thousands and disrupted energy markets by closing the Strait of Hormuz, as negotiators from Washington and Tehran work to bridge major differences.
- Hegseth emphasized the military is 'more than capable' of resuming the war, adding the department is 'super-charging our defence industrial base' to build 2X, 3X, 4X munitions very soon for global operations.
- President Donald Trump will make a 'final determination' on extending the early-April truce by 60 days, White House officials confirmed, aiming to provide negotiators time to forge a permanent end to the conflict.
- Military delegations from Israel and Lebanon held 'productive' talks in Washington on Friday, with these discussions informing the upcoming State-led political track complementing regional security efforts.
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The United States has more than enough weapons and is “more than capable” of restarting a war with Iran, Pete Hegseth told a defense summit in Singapore, hours after a meeting in Washington failed to produce an agreement to end the conflict. “Our stockpiles are more than capable of doing that, both there and around the world, because of the way we balance high-tech and larger quantities of munitions,” the US defense secretary told the Shangri-La…
Pete Hegseth, the US Secretary of Defense, said today that the United States has the means to return to war against Iran. An announcement regarding the conclusion of a memorandum of understanding between Washington and Tehran, referred to yesterday by Donald Trump, has still not been made by...
The United States is "more than capable" of restarting the war against Iran because it has more than enough stockpiles of weapons, said US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in Singapore on Saturday.
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