{"id":77517,"date":"2026-08-17T12:54:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T17:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/17\/jon-ossoff-accuses-trump-and-hegseth-of-lying-about-iran-war-video\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T12:54:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T17:54:57","slug":"jon-ossoff-accuses-trump-and-hegseth-of-lying-about-iran-war-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/17\/jon-ossoff-accuses-trump-and-hegseth-of-lying-about-iran-war-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Ossoff accuses Trump and Hegseth of lying about Iran war \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic senator Jon Ossoff attacked Donald Trump and\u00a0the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth,\u00a0over the Iran war, saying they lied &#8216;the nation into a war&#8217;. Ossoff, who is running for re-election in <a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/us-news\/state-of-georgia\">Georgia<\/a> in November, made the comments while speaking at a rally in midtown Atlanta on Sunday afternoon<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/17\/jon-ossoff-trump-iran-war-criticism\">Jon Ossoff calls Trump\u2019s handling of Iran war \u2018uniquely despicable\u2019 in excoriating speech<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/video\/2026\/aug\/17\/jon-ossoff-accuses-trump-and-hegseth-of-lying-about-iran-war-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic senator Jon Ossoff attacked Donald Trump and\u00a0the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth,\u00a0over the Iran war, saying they lied &#8216;the nation into a war&#8217;. Ossoff, who is running for re-election in Georgia in November, made the comments while speaking at a rally in midtown Atlanta on Sunday afternoon Jon Ossoff calls Trump\u2019s handling of Iran war &#8230; <a title=\"Jon Ossoff accuses Trump and Hegseth of lying about Iran war \u2013 video\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/17\/jon-ossoff-accuses-trump-and-hegseth-of-lying-about-iran-war-video\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Jon Ossoff accuses Trump and Hegseth of lying about Iran war \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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77517","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=77517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}