Democrat blasts Trump’s ‘incoherent’ Iran strategy after Pentagon says 140 US service members wounded in operation – as it happened

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Hegseth says the aftermath of the conflict is going to be in America's interests" and says it will not live under a nuclear blackmail" from Iran.

It comes shortly after the defence secretary reiterated president Donald Trump's threat that if Iran does anything to prevent the flow of oil in the strait of Hormuz, it will be hit twenty times harder".