Hegseth ‘dangerously exaggerated’ US military triumph in Iran, Senate hears

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Senator Jack Reed says at hearing that defense secretary failed to give Trump accurate picture of war in Iran

Pete Hegseth has failed to give Donald Trump an accurate picture of the war on Iran while resorting to “dangerously exaggerated” statements to create an inaccurate picture of a US military triumph, a senior Democrat told a Capitol Hill hearing on Thursday.

Jack Reed, the ranking Democrat on the Senate armed services committee, told Hegseth, the defense secretary, that far from victory, US citizens were having to bear the cost of a war they did not support in the form of increased fuel prices.

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