He didn't want it settled: Did Trump put Pete Hegseth on spot again over Iran war?
India Today
Trump says the war is already "won", but then points to his own defence chief as the man who did not want peace. Behind the victory claim lies a growing split inside Washington's war room.
President Donald Trump has claimed the Iran war is effectively over but in the same breath, he appears to have found someone to blame for why it is not ending smoothly.
Speaking in the Oval Office on Tuesday, Trump said Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth was among the few who were “quite disappointed” at the prospect of a US-negotiated ceasefire with Iran.
“I think this thing’s going to be settled very soon and they go, ‘Oh, that’s too bad.’ Pete didn’t want it to be settled,” Trump said, in remarks that placed his own war chief directly in the firing line.
Trump made it clear that Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chair Gen Dan Caine were not exactly celebrating the prospect of peace.
“They were not interested in settlement. They were interested in just winning this thing,” he said, referring to Hegseth and top military leadership.
It was a striking moment, a sitting president publicly distancing himself from his defence secretary’s stance on an ongoing war, even as negotiations remain fragile and undefined.
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