Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth captured the essential dual-track nature of the Trump administration’s Iran strategy in a single formulation at a White House Cabinet meeting, expressing genuine openness to a negotiated peace while making unambiguously clear that military strikes would continue without pause until such a deal was reached on American terms.
“We pray for a deal and we welcome a deal,” Hegseth said. “We have the ultimate dealmaker to make it happen. But in the meantime, the Department of War will continue negotiating with bombs.”
The remark came immediately after Special Envoy Steve Witkoff had briefed the Cabinet on substantive backchannel negotiations with Iran being conducted through Pakistan as an intermediary Read More From Source/Original…