WASHINGTON – Secretary of Defense and former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, who has mocked “stupid rules of engagement” for U.S. service members, on Friday declared that Iranians under attack in President Donald Trump’s war would receive “no quarter” — a war crime under the Geneva Conventions.
“We will keep pressing. We will keep pushing, keep advancing, no quarter, no mercy for our enemies,” he said at a Pentagon news briefing.
Neither the Defense Department nor the White House responded to HuffPost queries about Hegseth’s threat.
Trump, however, appeared to set the tone for it just after midnight Friday in a social media post in which he bragged about killing Iranian leaders.
“Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today,” he wrote. “They’ve been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years, and now I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them. What a great honor it is to do so!”
