Report: Hegseth’s broker sought to buy defence fund investment before Iran attack

Report: Hegseth’s broker sought to buy defence fund investment before Iran attack A broker for the US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth sought to make a major investment in arms companies in the weeks before the US-Israeli attack on Iran, the Financial Times reported, citing people familiar with the matter. According to the report, the broker at Morgan Stanley contacted BlackRock in February about a multimillion-dollar investment in its Defence Industrials Active ETF. The outreach came shortly before the United States launched military action against Tehran, the newspaper said.