You said, 'Let's do it': Trump shifts Iran war blame to Pete Hegseth
India Today
As the Iran war drags on, Trump appears to rewrite how it began, pointing at his defence chief. But warnings, denials and shifting claims suggest a story far messier than he lets on.
With the Iran war entering its fourth week and growing harder to explain, President Donald Trump now appears to have found a new way to tell the story by pointing at someone sitting right next to him.
At a Monday roundtable in Tennessee, Trump suggested Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth was the first to push for military action, offering a version of events that raised as many eyebrows as it did questions.
“Pete, I think you were the first one to speak up, and you said, ‘Let’s do it because you can’t let them have a nuclear weapon,’” Trump said, with Hegseth beside him.
For a war that has already seen multiple justifications, this was yet another.
Why did we go to war with Iran? Ask any two people in Donald Trump’s administration and you probably won’t get the same answer. Depending on who is speaking within the administration, the reasons for going to war with Iran seem to vary.
Some have claimed Israel was going to strike anyway, making US involvement inevitable. Others have insisted Iran was on the brink of deploying a nuclear weapon.
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