{"id":30277,"date":"2026-04-29T16:48:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2026\/04\/29\/pentagons-hegseth-champions-iran-conflict-dismisses-quagmire-concerns\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T16:48:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:48:06","slug":"pentagons-hegseth-champions-iran-conflict-dismisses-quagmire-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2026\/04\/29\/pentagons-hegseth-champions-iran-conflict-dismisses-quagmire-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon&#8217;s Hegseth Champions Iran Conflict, Dismisses Quagmire Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON:<\/strong> U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth passionately defended the war in Iran during a heated session with Congress on Wednesday. He strongly rejected the term &#8220;quagmire&#8221; and criticized Democratic lawmakers, calling them \u201cfeckless\u201d for their negative views on the ongoing conflict.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Labeling it a quagmire only gives our enemies ammunition against us. Shame on you for saying that,&#8221; Hegseth expressed, targeting what he described as &#8220;reckless and defeatist&#8221; attitudes from some members of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>In related news, former President Trump urged Iran to agree to a deal following indications that the U.S. might extend its blockade.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth passionately defended the war in Iran during a heated session with Congress on Wednesday. He strongly rejected the term &#8220;quagmire&#8221; and criticized Democratic lawmakers, calling them \u201cfeckless\u201d for their negative views on the ongoing conflict. &#8220;Labeling it a quagmire only gives our enemies ammunition against us. Shame on you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[3131,34654,33617,11377,7140],"class_list":{"0":"post-30277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business-news","8":"tag-iran","9":"tag-iran-us-conflict","10":"tag-iran-us-war","11":"tag-pentagon","12":"tag-pete-hegseth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}