{"id":24964,"date":"2026-08-25T11:24:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T11:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=24964"},"modified":"2026-08-25T11:24:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T11:24:59","slug":"oil-tanker-attacked-in-strait-of-hormuz-as-iran-claims-plan-to-shoulder-trump-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=24964","title":{"rendered":"Oil tanker attacked in Strait of Hormuz as Iran claims plan to shoulder Trump sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><!--[--><!--[--><!----><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>Iranian Economy Minister Ali Madanizadeh claims the Tehran regime is &#8220;fully prepared&#8221; to handle the new sanctions under President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Economic D-Day&#8221; effort.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>Madanizadeh predicted in an interview with Iranian state television that the sanctions will end in &#8220;another defeat&#8221; for the U.S.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>&#8220;They have done everything they could to test the determination of the Iranian people and the country&#8217;s officials, but they have failed every time. It seems they wished to suffer yet another defeat,&#8221; Madanizadeh told state media.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been waiting for these plans for a long time, and the government is and was ready and has a two-year plan to manage these events,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent described the sanctions on Monday as &#8220;the single greatest financial offensive ever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--]--><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian Economy Minister Ali Madanizadeh claims the Tehran regime is &#8220;fully prepared&#8221; to handle the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}