Comments in books, speeches and videos shed new light on defense secretary’s personal commitment to war on Iran Comments in books, speeches and videos shed new light on defense secretary’s personal commitment to war on Iran The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth , has expressed a violent antipathy towards Iran for years in books, Fox News broadcasts, educational videos and a 2018 speech to an Israeli media conference in Jerusalem, a Guardian review has revealed. In a 2020 book , for example,