{"id":217908,"date":"2026-07-22T10:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/217908\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T10:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:06:09","slug":"hegseth-heckled-by-protesters-during-iran-war-funding-hearing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/217908\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth heckled by protesters during Iran war funding hearing | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pete Hegseth<\/a> was heckled by protesters as he was questioned on the growing costs of the Trump administration\u2019s war in Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In his first testimony on the conflict in more than two months<\/a>, the defense secretary urged senators to approve what he is calling \u201can urgent, necessary injection\u201d of $67bn into the US military.<\/a><\/p>\n

During his opening remarks in Washington DC, on Tuesday (21 July), Mr Hegseth was accused of having \u201cblood on his hands\u201d by a protester outside the room.<\/p>\n

\u201cStop bombing our children in Iran and Palestine – this is illegal,\u201d a protester said again, in a second outburst just moments later.<\/p>\n

Senator Susan Collins paused proceedings twice, explaining: \u201cI know that individuals feel very passionately, but we must have order in the hearing room so that we can proceed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth was heckled by protesters as he was questioned on the growing costs of the Trump administration\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[4194,62296,62298,62294,2713,13360,3077,50625,50627,2982,2978,6243,62293,5084,28829,34,48789,31381,28834,62297,6479,201,62295,2576,1023,48765,50626,256,33836],"class_list":["post-217908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-argentina","tag-argentina-national-soccer-team","tag-argentina-national-team","tag-atlanta-georgia","tag-coach","tag-color-image","tag-england","tag-england-national-soccer-team","tag-england-national-team","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-fifa-world-cup-2026","tag-georgia-us-state","tag-horizontal","tag-international-team-soccer","tag-iran","tag-looking","tag-manager","tag-match-sport","tag-mercedes-benz-stadium","tag-national-team","tag-photography","tag-semifinal-round","tag-soccer","tag-sport","tag-thomas-tuchel","tag-united-kingdom-national-team","tag-usa","tag-world-sports-championship"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}