US Secretary of Defense Hegseth said on the 13th that the US military has sufficient military strength to “maintain” the maritime blockade of Iran indefinitely. According to a report by the US News Network, Hegseth told the media after speaking to officers and soldiers aboard an American warship in Panama that day, “The US Navy is fully capable of maintaining this blockade indefinitely, because we will continue to rotate ships as we did in the past.”

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