{"id":503391,"date":"2026-03-30T22:36:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T02:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/the-pentagon-denies-that-the-secretary-of-defense-tried-to-buy-shares-before-the-war-with-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:36:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T02:36:41","slug":"the-pentagon-denies-that-the-secretary-of-defense-tried-to-buy-shares-before-the-war-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/the-pentagon-denies-that-the-secretary-of-defense-tried-to-buy-shares-before-the-war-with-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pentagon denies that the Secretary of Defense tried to buy shares before the war with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Washington .- <\/strong>The Pentagon denied on Monday that the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth,<\/a><\/strong> had tried to invest in major defense companies as reported by the British newspaper Financial Times.<\/p>\n\n\nPentagon spokesman Sean Parnell called the Financial Times report, which indicated that a stockbroker linked to Hegseth had sought to make a million-dollar investment in a fund designed to invest in companies that manufacture weapons, aircraft, and defense systems, as “false and fabricated.”\n\nAccording to the British newspaper, Hegseth’s broker at Morgan Stanley contacted BlackRock<\/a> in February to make a multi-million dollar investment in the Defense Industrials Active fund, a few days before the United States launched a military action against Tehran.\n\n\n

We recommend reading: \u00abThis is another unfounded and dishonest defamation, designed to deceive the public. We demand an immediate retraction\u00bb, added Parnell on his official X account.<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\nThe case has sparked a debate about the transparency and potential conflicts of interest of officials with access to defense information, while analysts point out that financial movements in strategic sectors often receive media scrutiny even without evidence of illegal conduct.\n\nThis Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump, threatened widespread destruction of Iran’s energy resources and other vital infrastructure,<\/a> including desalination plants, if an agreement to end the war, which is in its fifth week, is not reached “soon.”\n\n\u00abThis is another unfounded and dishonest smear, designed to deceive the public. We demand an immediate retraction,\u00bb added Parnell on his official X account.\n\nThe case has sparked a debate about the transparency and potential conflicts of interest of officials with access to defense information, while analysts point out that financial movements in strategic sectors often receive media scrutiny even without evidence of illegal conduct.\n\nThis Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened widespread destruction of Iran’s energy resources and other vital infrastructure, including desalination plants, if an agreement to end the war, which is in its fifth week, is not reached “soon”.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Washington .- The Pentagon denied on Monday that the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, had tried to invest in major defense companies as reported by the British newspaper Financial Times. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell called the Financial Times report, which indicated that a stockbroker linked to Hegseth had sought to make a million-dollar investment in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-26Xd","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Ana Laura L\u00f3pez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-29-at-1.45.56-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}