The United States’ Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth, says Iran made a poor choice and now paying the price for its actions.

 

 

Hegseth made this statement on Saturday in a post on X after the United States launched another round of military strikes against Iran.

 

He said this as he reshared a statement issued by the US Central Command, CENTCOM, which confirmed the latest military operation.

 

“Iran made a poor choice. Now they pay,” he wrote.

CENTCOM said the latest operation marked the third wave of US strikes against Iran this week.

According to CENTCOM, the action was launched after Iran allegedly targeted a commercial vessel transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

The military disclosed that the strikes began at 7.15 pm ET after forces of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, IRGC, blatantly attacked the Cyprus-flagged container ship M/V GFS Galaxy.

 

The fresh US strikes came shortly after Iran’s IRGC Navy claimed it had intercepted and attacked a container ship attempting to exit the Strait of Hormuz through what it described as an unauthorised route after the vessel allegedly ignored repeated warnings.