{"id":25410,"date":"2026-08-29T12:46:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T12:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=25410"},"modified":"2026-08-29T12:46:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T12:46:59","slug":"strait-of-hormuz-traffic-remains-below-normal-as-us-sanctions-pressure-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=25410","title":{"rendered":"Strait of Hormuz traffic remains below normal as US sanctions pressure Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><!----><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Sat Aug 29 2026 08:28:22 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\">9 mins ago<\/time><!----><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\"><!--[-->Iranian president strikes defiant tone, says Tehran will \u2018stand strong against any aggressor\u2019<!--]--><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div><!--[--><!--[--><!----><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Saturday that his country does not welcome war, \u201cbut we will stand strong against any aggressor, and no power can force a nation that stands with all its might and will to surrender,\u201d a report said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>Pezeshkian spoke as the U.S.-Iran war passed the 6-month mark this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>&#8220;Despite the measures taken in the field of diplomacy and with the support of the people, the efforts of managers and statesmen, and the efforts of the commanders of the armed forces, we will not bow to any threat, as we have shown many times before,\u201d Pezeshkian added, according to the state-run IRIB News Agency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei revealed that the country is dealing with economic problems as the U.S. Treasury Department&#8217;s Operation Economic Outcast is widening, Reuters reported. The Trump administration launched its military campaign, Operation Epic Fury, against Iran on Feb. 28.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!--]--><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9 mins ago Iranian president strikes defiant tone, says Tehran will \u2018stand strong against any&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25410","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\/25410","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=25410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}