{"id":294808,"date":"2026-08-28T09:12:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T05:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=294808"},"modified":"2026-08-28T12:01:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T08:01:01","slug":"iran-threatens-to-target-us-economic-interests-if-pressure-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/294808\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran threatens to target US economic interests if pressure increases"},"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>Iran could harm US economic interests in the Middle East if pressure from sanctions intensifies, Secretary of Iran&rsquo;s Supreme National Security Council Mohsen Rezaei has warned.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If the United States increases economic pressure on Iran, we will respond with countermeasures that will affect American interests in the region,&rdquo; he said in an interview with Lebanon&rsquo;s Al-Manar TV channel. Rezaei did not elaborate on what kind of countermeasures he was referring to.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the United States&rsquo; shift toward economic pressure on Tehran indicates that a military approach to resolving the conflict has yielded limited results.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Axios reported that the US does not plan to launch new strikes against Iran in the near future and intends to focus on other means of pressuring Tehran, including sanctions.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran could harm US economic interests in the Middle East if pressure from sanctions intensifies, Secretary of Iran&rsquo;s Supreme National Security Council Mohsen Rezaei has warned. &ldquo;If the United States increases economic pressure on Iran, we will respond with countermeasures that will affect American interests in the region,&rdquo; he said in an interview with Lebanon&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":294763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-iran-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294808","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=294808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294809,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294808\/revisions\/294809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}