{"id":89790,"date":"2026-04-29T19:27:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/89790\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T19:27:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:27:32","slug":"hegseth-challenged-over-seemingly-contradictory-claims-on-iran-nukes-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/89790\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth challenged over seemingly contradictory claims on Iran nukes | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/pete-hegseth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Hegseth<\/a> was challenged over seemingly contradictory claims about Iran\u2019s nuclear capabilities while testifying in front of a House committee on the Trump administration\u2019s military budget.<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Congressman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/adam-smith\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Smith<\/a> questioned why the President and the Defense Secretary had justified the 2026 attack on Iran as due to an \u201cimminent threat\u201d of Iranian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/nuclear-weapons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nuclear weapons<\/a> when they had often trumpeted 2025\u2019s Operation Midnight Hammer strikes as having already \u201cobliterated\u201d the Middle East nation\u2019s nuke program.<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth suggested that, despite the Midnight Hammer strikes, the Iranians had still not given up their nuclear ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Dan Caine, were appearing before the House Armed Services Committee to be questioned on the 2027 $1.5 trillion budget, the largest increase in decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth was challenged over seemingly contradictory claims about Iran\u2019s nuclear capabilities while testifying in front of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31812,31805,31809,31803,13360,31807,31806,5084,34,31811,3345,28834,201,31798,31799,31808,2576,31801,1218,1023,31800,9796,31802,31804,28831,31810],"class_list":{"0":"post-89790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-antonin-kinsky","9":"tag-atletico-madrid","10":"tag-bestpix","11":"tag-club-soccer","12":"tag-color-image","13":"tag-eight-finals","14":"tag-first-leg","15":"tag-horizontal","16":"tag-iran","17":"tag-julian-alvarez","18":"tag-madrid","19":"tag-match-sport","20":"tag-photography","21":"tag-sadness","22":"tag-scoring","23":"tag-scoring-a-goal","24":"tag-soccer","25":"tag-soccer-player","26":"tag-spain","27":"tag-sport","28":"tag-sports-team","29":"tag-stadium","30":"tag-tottenham-hotspur-f-c","31":"tag-uefa-champions-league","32":"tag-union-of-european-football-associations","33":"tag-wanda-metropolitano"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116489646467280553","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89790","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=89790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}