The U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites were not a preamble to regime change, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Sunday, adding that Washington sent private messages to Tehran encouraging negotiation.
Officials kept “Operation Midnight” highly secret, limiting knowledge of the mission to a small number of people in Washington and at the U.S. military’s Middle East headquarters in Tampa, Florida.
Seven B-2 bombers flew for 18 hours from
