{"id":72871,"date":"2026-04-30T13:03:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/hegseth-dangerously-exaggerated-us-military-triumph-in-iran-senate-hears\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T13:03:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:03:02","slug":"hegseth-dangerously-exaggerated-us-military-triumph-in-iran-senate-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/hegseth-dangerously-exaggerated-us-military-triumph-in-iran-senate-hears\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth \u2018dangerously exaggerated\u2019 US military triumph in Iran, Senate hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Jack Reed says at hearing that defense secretary failed to give Trump accurate picture of war in Iran<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/apr\/28\/donald-trump-king-charles-melania-camilla-white-house-congress-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pete Hegseth has failed to give Donald Trump an accurate picture of the war on Iran while resorting to \u201cdangerously exaggerated\u201d statements to create an inaccurate picture of a US military triumph, a senior Democrat told a Capitol Hill hearing on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Reed, the ranking Democrat on the Senate armed services committee, told Hegseth, the defense secretary, that far from victory, US citizens were having to bear the cost of a war they did not support in the form of increased fuel prices.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/30\/pete-hegseth-iran-war-hearing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Jack Reed says at hearing that defense secretary failed to give Trump accurate picture of war in Iran US politics live \u2013 latest updates Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Pete Hegseth has failed to give Donald Trump an accurate picture of the war on Iran while resorting to \u201cdangerously exaggerated\u201d &#8230; <a title=\"Hegseth \u2018dangerously exaggerated\u2019 US military triumph in Iran, Senate hears\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/hegseth-dangerously-exaggerated-us-military-triumph-in-iran-senate-hears\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Hegseth \u2018dangerously exaggerated\u2019 US military triumph in Iran, Senate hears\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}