Washington DC, July 21 -- US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Tuesday (US local time) said the United States has reimposed an "effectively impenetrable" blockade against Iran and asserted that Tehran is at its weakest military point in decades, as he testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee on the Trump administration's request for a USD 1.5 trillion defence budget.

Hegseth, appeared in front of the Senate Appropriations Committee alongside Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine, and said, "Our blockade has been reimposed and is effectively impenetrable... a lot of the strikes that Admiral Cooper and CENTCOM have been undertaking are taking away Iran's ability to see and sense a way in the Strait of Hormuz, w...