{"id":72874,"date":"2026-04-30T14:55:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/an-unauthorised-war-democrats-grill-pete-hegseth-on-war-in-iran-video\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T14:55:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:55:05","slug":"an-unauthorised-war-democrats-grill-pete-hegseth-on-war-in-iran-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/an-unauthorised-war-democrats-grill-pete-hegseth-on-war-in-iran-video\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;An unauthorised war&#8217;: Democrats grill Pete Hegseth on war in Iran \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic senator for Rhode Island, Jack Reed, opened the Senate armed services committee on Thursday by accusing Pete Hegseth of &#8216;dangerously exaggerating&#8217; his statements about a US victory in Iran. Later during the hearing, Democratic senator for New York Kirsten Gillibrand called the war &#8216;unauthorised&#8217; and confronted the defence secretary over the unpopularity of the war among Americans<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/30\/pete-hegseth-iran-war-hearing\">Hegseth \u2018dangerously exaggerated\u2019 US military triumph in Iran, Senate hears<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\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<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/video\/2026\/apr\/30\/an-unauthorised-war-democrats-grill-us-defence-secretary-pete-hegseth-on-war-in-iran-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic senator for Rhode Island, Jack Reed, opened the Senate armed services committee on Thursday by accusing Pete Hegseth of &#8216;dangerously exaggerating&#8217; his statements about a US victory in Iran. Later during the hearing, Democratic senator for New York Kirsten Gillibrand called the war &#8216;unauthorised&#8217; and confronted the defence secretary over the unpopularity of the &#8230; <a title=\"&#8216;An unauthorised war&#8217;: Democrats grill Pete Hegseth on war in Iran \u2013 video\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/an-unauthorised-war-democrats-grill-pete-hegseth-on-war-in-iran-video\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about &#8216;An unauthorised war&#8217;: Democrats grill Pete Hegseth on war in Iran \u2013 video\">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-72874","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\/72874","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=72874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}