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US Pentagon chief says military ready to ensure Iran never gets a nuclear bomb
Pete Hegseth said Trump hoped to avoid military option ‘but if we have to, we will to prevent the nuclear bomb in Iran’s hands’
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Washington’s defence secretary reiterated on Sunday that the United States hoped for a diplomatic solution to keep Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, but if that failed the military was ready “to go deep and to go big”.
US and Iranian diplomats opened indirect talks on Saturday in Oman in an effort to resolve Western concerns about Iran’s nuclear programme.
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth on Sunday described the first, tentative contacts in Oman as “productive” and “a good step”.
He told CBS’ Face the Nation that while US President Donald Trump hoped to never have to resort to a military option: “We’ve shown a capability to go far, to go deep and to go big”.
“Again, we don’t want to do that, but if we have to, we will to prevent the nuclear bomb in Iran’s hands,” Hegseth said.
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Trump said on Wednesday that military action was “absolutely” possible – in conjunction with Israel – if the talks in Oman failed.
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