The U.S. is openly preparing to shift its Iran campaign into a far more brutal air war, with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth using a high-profile 60 Minutes interview to warn that thousands of earlier strikes were “only just the beginning” and that Washington and Israel, which he calls the world’s unmatched air powers, are now ready to unleash waves of 500, 1,000 and 2,000‑pound gravity bombs on key Iranian military targets – even as questions mount over crashed MQ‑9 Reaper drones, a deadly strike on a girls’ school in Minab, and the political shock of Mojtaba Khamenei’s rise to Supreme Leader just days after his father was killed in joint U.S.-Israeli attacks.