{"id":25304,"date":"2026-08-28T11:14:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T11:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=25304"},"modified":"2026-08-28T11:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T11:14:21","slug":"us-iran-war-reaches-6-month-mark-as-strait-of-hormuz-tensions-remain-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=25304","title":{"rendered":"US-Iran war reaches 6-month mark as Strait of Hormuz tensions remain high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><!----><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Fri Aug 28 2026 06:52:03 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\">18 mins ago<\/time><!----><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\"><!--[-->Trump says Iran is in \u2018deep trouble\u2019 as US Treasury ramps up pressure on Tehran<!--]--><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div><!--[--><!--[--><!----><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House on Thursday that Iran is &#8220;not paying their troops&#8221; and are &#8220;in deep trouble&#8221; following the launch of the U.S. Treasury Department&#8217;s Operation Economic Outcast against Tehran.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>&#8220;The strait is open. As you know, the Strait of Hormuz is open,&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;We have control and we have the blockade. Iran is not getting anything, nothing is going through, not one ship has gotten through.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>The aggressive strategy, labeled as an &#8220;Economic D-Day&#8221; and initiated under the direction of Trump, aims to &#8220;tighten the noose and block every potential source of revenue that funds the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Iranian regime,&#8221; according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>The Trump administration also will implement secondary sanctions to pressure nations into severing ties with Tehran, while simultaneously blacklisting nearly 60 people, businesses and vessels involved in illicit trade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p><em>Fox News&#8217; Louis Casiano contributed to this post.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--]--><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18 mins ago Trump says Iran is in \u2018deep trouble\u2019 as US Treasury ramps up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25304","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\/25304","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=25304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}