US will not pursue nation-building in Iran, Hegseth says
US War Secretary Pete Hegseth said Washington will not pursue a nation-building effort in Iran, while adding that Tehran has killed large numbers of its own citizens.
“We’re not going to entangle this into some nation-building project,” Hegseth said at a Pentagon briefing.
He also said Iran’s government “killed 45,000 of their own people, innocent civilians.”
Hegseth said US objectives remain limited, focused on security and preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
