{"id":294140,"date":"2026-08-25T11:23:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T07:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=294140"},"modified":"2026-08-25T12:17:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T08:17:28","slug":"us-faces-difficult-situation-due-to-weapons-shortages-hillary-clinton-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/294140\/","title":{"rendered":"US faces difficult situation due to weapons shortages, Hillary Clinton says"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The United States has expended too many weapons during its conflict with Iran, leaving Washington in a difficult position, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said at an event hosted by the Hampton Institute.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have expended so much ammunition in Iran, and we have certainly sent large quantities of ammunition to our allies in the Gulf. So we are in a difficult position because we cannot adequately respond to unexpected threats. We have dug ourselves into a deep hole,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>US media have previously reported that American weapons stockpiles have fallen to record-low levels amid the conflict with Iran. The depleted stocks include Patriot missiles, Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense systems, as well as long-range ATACMS and PrSM missiles.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has expended too many weapons during its conflict with Iran, leaving Washington in a difficult position, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said at an event hosted by the Hampton Institute. &ldquo;We have expended so much ammunition in Iran, and we have certainly sent large quantities of ammunition to our allies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":294125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294142,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294140\/revisions\/294142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}