Secretary of War Pete Hegseth began his latest press conference on the war in the Middle East by rebuking the media’s coverage of the conflict and defending the administration’s battlefield strategy.

“I’ll start, as we often do here at the Department of War, with the bottom line up front for the world to hear and the press to actually admit — the United States is decimating the radical Iranian regime’s military in a way the world has never seen before,” he said.