Trump claims Pete Hegseth doesn’t want US-Iran war to be settled: 'He wants...'

As the US‑Iran conflict enters its fourth week, President Donald Trump appeared to shift responsibility for the military strikes against Iran onto his defence secretary, Pete HegsethIn a fresh remark on Tuesday, Trump claimed that Pete doesn’t want the US-Iran war to be settled. "I don’t want to say this but I have to… Pete didn’t want it to be settled. In other words, our Sec. of War doesn't want peace, he wants war," the president said. During a recent roundtable of the Memphis Safe Task Force on Monday night, Trump mentioned that Hegseth was the first senior official in his administration to push for intervention. "Pete, I think you were the first one to speak up and you said, ‘Let’s do it because you can’t let them have a nuclear weapon."