Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth gives President Trump false information about U.S. superiority in battles in Iran.

Axar.az informs, according to The Washington Post, the chaotic but successful rescue mission has become the clearest indication yet that Hegseth’s repeated claims of air dominance come with serious caveats, and has reinforced concerns inside the Trump administration that his messaging about the war is overly optimistic and risks misinforming both the public and the president.

“Pete is not speaking truth to the president,” one administration official said. “As a result, the president is out there repeating misleading information.”

Publication writes that though Hegseth has claimed for weeks that Iran has “no air defenses” and could do “nothing” about U.S. air incursions, Trump acknowledged during his White House news conference Monday that a shoulder-fired “heat-seeking missile” downed the F-15 that left two U.S. airmen temporarily stranded deep inside Iranian territory.

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