WATCH LIVE: Pete Hegseth and Admiral Brad Cooper Hold Press Conference on Day 6 of Operation Epic Fury in Iran – 4:30 PM ET | The Gateway Pundit | by Jordan Conradson


WATCH LIVE: Pete Hegseth and Admiral Brad Cooper Hold Press Conference on Day 6 of Operation Epic Fury in Iran – 4:30 PM ET

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Pentagon press briefing featuring military officials at podiums, with American flags and media members in attendance.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth photo courtesy of the United States Air Force via screen grab

War Secretary Pete Hegseth and Commander of the US Central Command, Admiral Brad Cooper, will speak at a press conference this afternoon to provide updates on Operation Epic Fury. 

Hegseth and Cooper will deliver the press conference from the US Central Command Headquarters in Tampa, Florida.

Hegseth delivered remarks earlier at the US Southern Command Headquarters in Doral, Florida, during the inaugural Americas Counter Cartel Conference with “like-minded regional defense and security leaders from the Caribbean, Central America, and South America,” according to the Pentagon.

As The Gateway Pundit reported on Tuesday, the U.S. Southern Command announced new operations with the Ecuadorian military against narco-terrorists in Ecuador.

This comes as the US and Israel enter the sixth day of war with Iran.

On Wednesday, Hegseth and Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, delivered a press briefing at the Pentagon, where Hegseth announced that US forces “hunted down and killed” the leader of an Iranian unit behind an assassination plot against President Trump.

“Iran tried to kill President Trump, and President Trump got the last laugh,” Hegseth said.

He further said that the US has dismantled Iran’s defense capabilities, including its navy and air force. “The Iranian Air Force is no more. Built for 1996, destroyed in 2026. The Iranian Navy rests at the bottom of the Persian Gulf,” he said, adding that Iran’s military is “combat ineffective, decimated, destroyed, defeated— Pick your adjective.”

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Iran has launched a series of retaliatory strikes against Israel and the US, including the suicide drone bombing of the US consulate in Dubai on Tuesday and the US Embassy in Saudi Arabia on Monday, where the CIA station was hit. US Central Command reports that the Iranian regime has already fired more than 500 ballistic missiles and over 2,000 drones.

At least six U.S. service members have been killed in action since the beginning of the operation.

Recent reporting suggests that the US may also move to arm Iranian Kurdish fighters to ignite an uprising in Iran and take over the government.

Though the White House has not confirmed these plans, the Gateway Pundit reported that Kurdish officials and people familiar with the discussions say President Trump spoke with Iraqi Kurdish leaders Bafel Talabani and Masoud Barzani, asking them to allow Iranian Kurdish fighters based in Iraq to move into western Iran.

The Department of War announced the briefing on X earlier.

Watch live below:

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Jordan Conradson
Jordan Conradson, formerly TGP’s Arizona correspondent, is currently on assignment in Washington DC. Jordan has played a critical role in exposing fraud and corruption in Arizona's elections and elected officials. His reporting on election crimes in Maricopa County led to the resignation of one election official, and he was later banned from the Maricopa County press room for his courage in pursuit of the truth. TGP and Jordan finally gained access after suing Maricopa County, America's fourth largest county, and winning at the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. Conradson looks forward to bringing his aggressive style of journalism to the Swamp.

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