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As our colleague Robert Tait reports , US defense secretary Pete Hegseth ’s attempt to put a positive spin on the ongoing US war on Iran was immediately challenged, first by the ranking Democrat on the armed services committee, senator Jack Reed , who lambasted his “dangerously exaggerated” claims, and then by a protester who shouted, “you’re a war criminal!” A Reuters photograph of the protester from the activist group Code Pink showed that he stood up in the audience behind Hegseth and held a sign reading “No War on Iran”, as a colleague recorded and Capitol Police officers quickly converged