{"id":21100,"date":"2026-04-09T01:20:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T01:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democratic-senator-hegseth-blowing-smoke-with-claims-about-iran-war\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T01:20:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T01:20:48","slug":"democratic-senator-hegseth-blowing-smoke-with-claims-about-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democratic-senator-hegseth-blowing-smoke-with-claims-about-iran-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic senator: Hegseth &#8216;blowing smoke&#8217; with claims about Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) on Wednesday accused Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth of &#8220;blowing smoke&#8221; over his claims about the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran. Van Hollen slammed Hegseth after the secretary praised the military operation against Iran as &#8220;a historic and overwhelming victory&#8221; earlier in the day Wednesday&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5822502-van-hollen-accuses-hegseth-blowing-smoke\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) on Wednesday accused Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth of &#8220;blowing smoke&#8221; over his claims about the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran. Van Hollen slammed Hegseth after the secretary praised the military operation against Iran as &#8220;a historic and overwhelming victory&#8221; earlier in the day Wednesday&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}