Sri Lanka, March 5 -- White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that the United States will have "complete and total dominance" over Iranian airspace in the next few hours.

"We expect to have complete and total dominance over Iranian airspace in the coming hours, clearing the skies for our brave warriors to continue achieving these noble and long sought after objectives," Leavitt said during today's press briefing.

Leavitt's comments come as Iran has continued its retaliatory strikes on neighbors in the Middle East, following the US-Israeli attacks that began the war this weekend.

US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dan Caine told reporters earlier that "Iran's theater ballistic missile shots fired are down 86% fro...