{"id":26777,"date":"2026-08-14T13:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T20:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=26777"},"modified":"2026-08-14T13:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T20:56:13","slug":"economists-say-iran-faces-severe-collapse-of-economy-under-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/economists-say-iran-faces-severe-collapse-of-economy-under-blockade\/","title":{"rendered":"Economists Say Iran Faces \u2018Severe Collapse\u2019 of Economy Under Blockade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subheading\">Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said on Thursday that the United States can maintain its blockade of Iran \u201cindefinitely,\u201d while economists said the Iranian economy is rapidly approaching the point of \u201csevere collapse\u201d under the pressure.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\">\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">\u201cIndefinitely the United States Navy can maintain a blockade like that because we\u2019ll rotate ships in and out, as we have, and we\u2019ll continue to,\u201d Hegseth\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/us-eyes-indefinite-iran-naval-blockade-oil-supply-shortfall-deepens-2026-08-13\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">told<\/a>\u00a0reporters Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2026\/08\/14\/economists-say-iran-faces-severe-collapse-of-economy-under-blockade\/\">breitbart.com<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d padok\" data-google-query-id=\"CJW05NKAoZYDFZZWnQYd3Eo0JA\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said on Thursday that the United States can maintain its blockade of Iran \u201cindefinitely,\u201d while economists said the Iranian economy is rapidly approaching the point of \u201csevere collapse\u201d under the pressure. \u201cIndefinitely the United States Navy can maintain a blockade like that because we\u2019ll rotate ships in and out, as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/economists-say-iran-faces-severe-collapse-of-economy-under-blockade\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Economists Say Iran Faces \u2018Severe Collapse\u2019 of Economy Under Blockade<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6XT","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/black_horse_blog-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26778,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26777\/revisions\/26778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}