{"id":78224,"date":"2026-09-03T06:54:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/pete-hegseth-faces-growing-criticism-as-war-with-iran-rolls-on\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T06:54:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:54:47","slug":"pete-hegseth-faces-growing-criticism-as-war-with-iran-rolls-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/pete-hegseth-faces-growing-criticism-as-war-with-iran-rolls-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth Faces Growing Criticism as War With Iran Rolls On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is facing growing criticism from some Republicans, with a key senator now calling on President Donald Trump to replace him. It comes amid Hegseth\u2019s reported plans to extend troop deployments in the Middle East, a sign that the conflict with Iran could drag into next year. Meanwhile, the war continues to escalate with Iran targeting U.S. sites across the region in response to a wave of American bombings earlier in the week. NBC\u2019s Keir Simmons reports for TODAY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is facing growing criticism from some Republicans, with a key senator now calling on President Donald Trump to replace him. It comes amid Hegseth\u2019s reported plans to extend troop deployments in the Middle East, a sign that the conflict with Iran could drag into next year. Meanwhile, the war continues to &#8230; <a title=\"Pete Hegseth Faces Growing Criticism as War With Iran Rolls On\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/pete-hegseth-faces-growing-criticism-as-war-with-iran-rolls-on\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Pete Hegseth Faces Growing Criticism as War With Iran Rolls On\">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-78224","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\/78224","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=78224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}