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Hegseth says US could escalate Iran war with 2,000-lb bombs

Mar 9, 2026, 04:17 GMT+0

"We're willing to go as far as we need to in order to be successful," Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told CBS News on the Iran war. “There’ll be a point where they’ll have no choice but to surrender.”

Hegseth said "this is only just the beginning."

"The ability for us to be up over the top and hunting with more conventional munitions, gravity bombs, 500-pound, 1,000-pound, 2,000-pound bombs on military targets-- that-- we haven't even really begun to start that effort of the campaign, which is gonna showcase even more how-- how we will execute on those objectives," Hegseth added.

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