“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth conceded on Tuesday that Iran retained the ability to retaliate despite a monthlong U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign but repeated claims that Iran’s military capabilities had been severely degraded, in his first public briefing on the war in nearly two weeks,” the New York Times reports.
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