Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Saturday the United States was not caught off guard by Israelโs unprecedented wave of strikes against Iranโs nuclear facilities and top military leaders this week, or by the recent escalation between the two nations.
โI wouldnโt say we were really surprised by any dynamic of the back and forth. Thatโs been ongoing, but weโre monitoring it closely,โ Hegseth said.
Hegseth said the US is well prepared to defend its personnel and interests in the region.
โWe are robustly postured to ensure that our people โ our bases, our interests โ are safe and weโre continuing to monitor any, any forces we would need to do that, capabilities we would need to do that, we will, we will keep Americans safe,โ Hegseth said. โThe US is postured to defend our people in the region. Weโve got significant assets in the region.โ
Hegseth mirrored President Trump, who has emphasized a preference for negotiations but warned of the consequences of continued aggression, during a Fox News appearance on Saturday. The Defense Secretary said there is still a window for peace despite the heightened tensions.
โThe president continues to message that he prefers peace. He prefers a solution to this that is resolved at the table,โ Hegseth said. โIran still has an option for that, but Israel took what it believed it needed to do in self-defense strikes, and based on that first day, they were quite effective.โ
President Trump urged Iran to โmake a deal, before there is nothing leftโ after Israel launched roughly 200 strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, senior military leaders and research scientists. It was the opening attack in what Israeli officials have said is part of a major operation against Iran.
In response, Iran fired a barrage of missiles into Israel early Saturday, culminating in a night of widespread explosions and destruction in both Tel Aviv and Tehran.
- was not caught off guard: ๊ธฐ์ต๋นํ์ง ์์๋ค, ์์ํ์ง ๋ชปํ ๊ฒ ์๋์๋ค
caught off guard: ํ๋ฅผ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ค, ์์์น ๋ชปํด ๋นํฉํ๋ค, ๊ธฐ์ต์ ๋นํ๋ค
- a wave of strikes: ์ผ๋ จ์ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ, ์ฐ์์ ์ธ ํ๊ฒฉ
- postured to ~: ~ํ ํ์ธ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ถ๊ณ ์๋ค, ~ํ ์ค๋น๊ฐ ๋์ด ์๋ค
- a window for peace: ํํ๋ฅผ ์ํ ๊ธฐํ, ํ์์ ์ฌ์ง
- in self-defense: ์๊ธฐ ๋ฐฉ์ด ์ฐจ์์์, ์์๊ถ ํ์ฌ๋ก
- a barrage of missiles: ๋ฏธ์ฌ์ผ ์ธ๋ก
- culminating in: ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ~๋ก ์ด์ด์ง๋ค, ~๋ก ์ ์ ์ ์ด๋ฅด๋ค, ~๋ก ๋ง๋ฌด๋ฆฌ๋๋ค
ํผํธ ํฅ์ธ์ค ๊ตญ๋ฐฉ์ฅ๊ด์ ์ด๋ฒ ์ฃผ ์ด์ค๋ผ์์ด ์ด๋ ํต์์ค๊ณผ ๊ณ ์ ๊ตฐ์ฌ ์ง๋๋ถ๋ฅผ ์๋๋ก ๋ฒ์ธ ์ ๋ก ์๋ ๊ณต์ต๊ณผ ์๊ตญ ๊ฐ ๊ฐ๋ฑ ๊ฒฉํ์ ๋ํด, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ์ฌ์ ์ ์ด๋ฅผ ์ถฉ๋ถํ ์ธ์งํ๊ณ ์์๋ค๊ณ 14์ผ(ํ์ง์๊ฐ) ๋ฐํ๋ค.
ํฅ์ธ์ค ์ฅ๊ด์ โ์์ธก์ ๊ณต๋ฐฉ์ด ์ด์ด์ง๊ณ ์์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ํน๋ณํ ๋๋ ๋งํ ์ผ์ ์๋์๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ํฉ์ ๋ฉด๋ฐํ ๋ชจ๋ํฐ๋งํ๊ณ ์๋คโ๊ณ ๋งํ๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ด ํด๋น ์ง์ญ ๋ด ์๊ตญ ์ธ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ์ดํด๊ด๊ณ๋ฅผ ๋ฐฉ์ดํ ์ค๋น๊ฐ ์ฒ ์ ํ ๋์ด ์๋ค๊ณ ๊ฐ์กฐํ๋ค. โ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ธฐ์ง, ์๊ตญ๋ฏผ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ์ด์ต์ ๋ณดํธํ ์ ์๋๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ๋๋น ํ์ธ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ถ๊ณ ์๋ค. ํ์ํ ์์ฐ๊ณผ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ ๋์ํด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ ์งํฌ ๊ฒโ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋ฐํ๋ค.
ํฅ์ธ์ค ์ฅ๊ด์ ์ด๋ ํญ์ค๋ด์ค์ ์ถ์ฐํด ํธ๋ผํ ๋ํต๋ น์ ๊ธฐ์กฐ์๋ ๊ฐ์ ์
์ฅ์ ๋ณด์๋ค. ํธ๋ผํ ๋ํต๋ น์ ํ์์ ์ ํธํ๋ค๊ณ ๊ฐ์กฐํ๋ฉด์๋ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์ด ์ง์๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ์๋ ๊ทธ์ ์์ํ๋ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ ๋ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ํ๋ค.
โ๋ํต๋ น์ ํํ์ ํด๊ฒฐ์ ์ ํธํ๋ฉฐ, ํ์ ํ
์ด๋ธ์์ ํด๊ฒฐ๋๊ธธ ๋ฐ๋๋ค๋ ๋ฉ์์ง๋ฅผ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๋ด๊ณ ์๋ค. ์ด๋๋ ์ฌ์ ํ ๊ทธ ์ ํ์ง๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ์ด์ค๋ผ์์ ์์๊ถ ์ฐจ์์์ ํ์ํ ์กฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ทจํ ๊ฒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ฒซ๋ ์ ์์ ์ ๋งค์ฐ ํจ๊ณผ์ ์ด์๋คโ๊ณ ํฅ์ธ์ค ์ฅ๊ด์ ๋งํ๋ค.
ํธ๋ผํ ๋ํต๋ น์ ์ด์ค๋ผ์์ด ์ฝ 200์ฌ ์ฐจ๋ก ์ด๋ ํต์์ค, ๊ณ ์ ๊ตฐ ์งํ๋ถ, ํต ์ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ณผํ์๋ค์ ํ๊ฒฉํ ์ดํ, โ์ด์ ์๋ฌด๊ฒ๋ ๋จ๊ธฐ ์ ์ ํ์์ ๋์๋ผโ๊ณ ์ด๋์ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ํ๋ค. ์ด์ค๋ผ์ ๋น๊ตญ์ ์ด๋ฒ ๊ณต์ต์ด ์ด๋์ ๋ํ ๋๊ท๋ชจ ๊ตฐ์ฌ ์์ ์ ์์์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋ฐํ๋ค.
์ด์ ๋ํ ๋ณด๋ณต์ผ๋ก ์ด๋์ ํ ์์ผ ์๋ฒฝ ์ด์ค๋ผ์์ ๋๊ท๋ชจ ๋ฏธ์ฌ์ผ์ ๋ฐ์ฌํ๊ณ , ์ด๋ก ์ธํด ํ
์๋น๋ธ์ ํ
ํค๋ ์ ๋์์๋ ๋ฐค์ ํญ๋ฐ๊ณผ ํ๊ดด๊ฐ ์ด์ด์ก๋ค.
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