Secretary of War Pete Hegseth photo courtesy of the United States Air Force via screen grabWar Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force General Dan Caine will speak at a press conference this afternoon to provide updates on Operation Epic Fury. Hegseth and Caine will deliver the press conference from the US Central Command Headquarters in Tampa, Florida.Hegseth delivered remarks earlier at the US Southern Command Headquarters in Doral, Florida, during the inaugural Americas Counter Cartel Conference with “like-minded regional defense and security leaders from the Caribbean, Central America, and South America,” according to the Pentagon.As The Gateway Pundit reported on Tuesday, the U.S. Southern Command announced new operations with the Ecuadorian military against narco-terrorists in Ecuador.This comes as the US and Israel enter the sixth day of war with Iran.On Wednesday, Hegseth and Caine delivered a press briefing at the Pentagon, where Hegseth announced that US forces “hunted down and killed” the leader of an Iranian unit behind an assassination plot against President Trump.“Iran tried to kill President Trump, and President Trump got the last laugh,” Hegseth said.He further said that the US has dismantled Iran’s defense capabilities, including its navy and air force. “The Iranian Air Force is no more. Built for 1996, destroyed in 2026. The Iranian Navy rests at the bottom of the Persian Gulf,” he said, adding that Iran’s military is “combat ineffective, decimated, destroyed, defeated— Pick your adjective.”WATCH: Pete Hegseth Says Leader Behind Iranian Assassination Plot Against Trump was Killed – “Trump Got the Last Laugh”/*! This file is auto-generated */!function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i