{"id":558486,"date":"2026-04-30T09:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/558486\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T09:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:47:10","slug":"us-lawmakers-question-pete-hegseth-about-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/558486\/","title":{"rendered":"US lawmakers question Pete Hegseth about Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat presses Hegseth and Caine on whether US is winning Iran warpublished at 17:10 BST 29 April<\/p>\n<p>17:10 BST 29 April<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Two men in blue suits and one in a blue military uniform sit at a desk with rows of people sat behind them and portraits and flags adourning the wall\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/c5c3373d-c766-4662-bdd4-1fd55f7a54f6.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Democrat Seth Moulton asks Hegseth if he advised the president to launch attacks on Iran. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hegseth says that the US president &#8220;got every perspective possible&#8221;, then turns the conversation to nuclear weapons, telling the committee to &#8220;imagine what the world would look like now&#8221; if Iran had a nuclear bomb. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Do you think the US is winning the war, Moulton asks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hegseth says &#8220;absolutely&#8221;, and says it&#8217;s been an &#8220;astounding military success&#8221; on the battlefield. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Moulton presses him on whether the blockade in the Strait of Hormuz could be perceived as winning: &#8220;So they blockaded us, and then we blockaded their blockade, that&#8217;s like saying &#8216;tag, you&#8217;re it'&#8221;, he says, and asks Caine if the military had planned for this. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The US military &#8220;always offer a full range of military options&#8221; that are &#8220;carefully considered&#8221;, Caine says. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Moulton asks if the effect on the &#8220;average American taxpayer&#8221; has been considered &#8211; which he says is around $600.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hegseth says this war &#8220;won&#8217;t go on for years&#8221;, and asks instead: &#8220;What is the cost of Iran having a nuclear weapon?&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democrat presses Hegseth and Caine on whether US is winning Iran warpublished at 17:10 BST 29 April 17:10&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-558486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}