REUTERS Pete Hegseth got a history lesson after making a big claim during his victory lap over the Iran war. The defense secretary, 45, got schooled by social media users after touting an American submarine’s attack on an Iranian warship as he showed no signs of letting up on attacks against the Middle Eastern power. “Yesterday in the Indian Ocean—and we’ll play it on the screen there—an American submarine sunk an Iranian warship that thought it was safe in international waters,” he told reporters on Wednesday. “Instead, it was sunk by a torpedo. Quiet death.” Read more at The Daily Beast.