{"id":24275,"date":"2026-08-27T05:04:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T05:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=24275"},"modified":"2026-08-27T05:04:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T05:04:05","slug":"trump-announces-new-round-of-economic-pressure-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/08\/27\/trump-announces-new-round-of-economic-pressure-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump announces new round of economic pressure on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: U.S. President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent have announced a new round of sweeping economic pressure on Iran under an operation referred to as \u201cEconomic D-Day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed new sanctions on around 60 Iran-linked individuals, companies and vessels and warned countries and businesses maintaining financial and trade ties with Tehran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Washington has threatened that foreign entities could face restrictions within the U.S. financial system if they continue doing business with Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bessent said the United States aims to cut off the financial and commercial channels that have allowed Iran\u2019s economy to remain operational.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Bessent, Iran\u2019s oil exports, financial networks, shipping activities and other economic ties will be among the main targets of the new pressure campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The measures come as the conflict between the United States and Iran continues, months after the outbreak of hostilities, with Washington yet to achieve what it considers a decisive outcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: U.S. President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent have announced a new round of sweeping economic pressure on Iran under an operation referred to as \u201cEconomic D-Day.\u201d The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed new sanctions on around 60 Iran-linked individuals, companies and vessels and warned countries and businesses maintaining financial and trade ties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24277,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24275\/revisions\/24277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}