Unconditional Surrender
by Pete Hegseth

Standing strong at the press conference microphone, I’m fired up since President Trump is getting a feel for unprovoked attacks against overmatched enemies and then declaring victory and vowing to run the conquered countries his way from now on. The sooner he takes over, the better. The Iranians should’ve already accepted his terms of unconditional surrender.

The ayatollahs still alive feel the president is demanding they lay down their arms and stop fighting. He is but in a generous way, offering immunity and a chance to rejoin the civilized world. They surely know he is about to get tougher. No immunity. More destruction throughout Iran. A defeat that will inevitably result in civilian deaths in schools, hospitals, and neighborhoods, places we would never intentionally strike, and neither would Israel.

I point at a young female reporter who comments rather than asks, “At the start of the war, how did you and Israel behave so recklessly that you blew up a girls’ school and killed a hundred and fifty students and teachers?”

I look straight into her eyes before I say, “When a few drones get through or tragic things happen, it’s big news. I get it. But the big point for fake news is to make the president look bad.”

We don’t want to hurt civilians, but Iranians must remember their theocratic rulers don’t care about them. The ayatollahs only want to preserve power. But as president of the United States, Donald Trump is responsible for destroying the Islamic Republic. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded we do so, and we won’t let him down.

Glancing into TV cameras before focusing on the audience, I say, “I’m going to tell you the same thing I told the prime minister. ‘We will fly all day, all night, flying over Tehran, flying over Iran, and whenever Iranians look up they’ll see only U.S. and Israeli warplanes… Death and destruction from the sky, all day and all night long.”

Iran can never stop the greatest military machine in history. We’ve proved our superiority and assume Iranians understand the war is over. Their missiles and drones are hitting some buildings in Israel and Gulf States but damage is minimal compared to what Israel and the United States are inflicting on Iran. And that reminds me, they really haven’t closed, or at least won’t be able to keep closed, the Strait of Hormuz, gateway for a fifth of the world’s oil, and they should quit trying to do so. I’m warning Iranians, we’re going to lead mighty oil tankers into the international marketplace, and if they sink twenty million barrels of oil a day and screw up President Trump’s beautiful economy, we’re going to flatten Iran and execute lots of criminals.

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