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US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said on Friday (March 13) that Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is wounded and likely disfigured, adding that the country's leadership was on the run and in hiding just like "what rats do".

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00:13from day one as our nation expects and the president demands our warriors have fought
00:18with lethality precision and rapid innovation in fact today will be yet again the highest volume
00:25of strikes that america has put over the skies of iran and tehran the number of sorties and
00:29number of bomber pulses the highest yet ramping up and only up iran's leadership is in no better
00:37shape desperate and hiding they've gone underground cowering that's what rats do we know the new so
00:46called not so supreme leader is wounded and likely disfigured he put out a statement yesterday a weak
00:54one actually but there was no voice and there was no video it was a written statement he called for
01:02unity apparently killing tens of thousands of protesters is his kind of unity iran has plenty
01:10of cameras and plenty of voice recorders why a written statement i think you know why
01:15his father dead he's scared he's injured he's on the run and he lacks legitimacy it's a mess
01:23for them who's in charge iran may not even know our response we will keep pressing we will keep
01:31pushing keep advancing no quarter no mercy for our enemies but war in this context and in pursuit of
01:41peace is necessary which is why each day on bended knee we continue to appeal to heaven
01:47to almighty god's providence to watch over and give special skill and confidence to our leaders
01:52and to our warriors to those warriors who this nation prays for every single day i hear from all of
01:59you out there who pray for them every day stay on bended knee and pray for them i continue to
02:06say to
02:06them godspeed may the lord bless you and keep you and keep going this morning we enter the 13th day
02:13of operation epic fury and we continue to make progress towards our military objectives as the
02:19secretary said today will be our heaviest day of kinetic fires across the operating area
02:24centcom continues to attack ballistic missile and drone capabilities so that they are no longer a
02:30threat to u.s forces our bases or our partners they're continuing to destroy the iranian navy
02:36to ensure freedom of navigation and this means going after iran's mine laying capability and
02:42destroying their ability to attack commercial vessels and we're targeting their defense industrial
02:48base so they cannot rebuild the capabilities that can harm america's interests or our partners in the
02:54future as service members make in the evening evening the czaal takes and is called a
03:00front-end network from the north alitani that is used as a service to the kezbelah and
03:05to the service to the north lebanon this is only the beginning and the government and the state of
03:12lebanon has earned a price that is coming and is increasing in attacks of the lebanonis that
03:18which is the first one in the military
03:19in order to fight the terrorist and the terrorist
03:23in the military.
03:24The Taliban, which is a good word
03:29after a fear of defending the terrorist
03:31against the terrorist
03:31will be able to earn
03:35a profit
03:35to the border
03:37to the international
03:39attack of the terrorist
03:42against the terrorist
03:52You
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