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A visibly irate Pete Hegseth compared Iran’s leaders to “rats” on the run, and urged a "patriotic press” to rewrite headlines about the deadly, costly and escalating war.“The U.S. is decimating the radical Iranian regime’s military in a way the world has never seen before,” Hegseth boasted in a Friday morning press briefing. “We said it would not be a fair fight, and it has not been.”