The United States and Israel have struck more than 15,000 targets since the war against Iran began last month, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday.
“Between our air force and the Israeli air force, over 15,000 enemy targets have been hit. That’s well over 1,000 a day,” Hegseth told a news conference, adding that Friday would mark the highest number of strikes so far in the campaign.
The United States and Israel launched a massive air campaign against Iran on February 28, and Tehran responded with waves of missiles and drones launched at countries in the region where US troops are based.
Washington’s forces are targeting Iran’s missile and drone infrastructure, and Hegseth said on Friday that the volume of return fire had decreased dramatically from earlier periods of the conflict.
Iran’s “missiles, their rocket launchers and drones (are) destroyed or shot out of the sky,” he said, adding: “Their volume of missiles has decreased by 90 percent, their one-way attack drones yesterday – by 95 percent.
