{"id":130842,"date":"2026-05-25T22:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T22:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/130842\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T22:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T22:53:07","slug":"the-iran-war-is-coming-for-your-diet-coke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/130842\/","title":{"rendered":"The Iran war is coming for your Diet Coke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-description\">The disruption in aluminium exports is hitting beverage manufacturing and power grid build-outs<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">GEOPOLITICS is currently making it harder for India\u2019s 1.4 billion people to cool off in the punishing summer heat. Things are about to get a whole lot worse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">The problem right now is with Diet Coke. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has <a class=\"text-verticals-btblue underline hover:text-blue-500\" data-testid=\"article-annotation-link-component\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businesstimes.com.sg\/companies-markets\/energy-commodities\/london-metals-index-record-high-aluminium-black-hole-fear\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">disrupted exports of aluminium<\/a> from smelters in the Persian Gulf, which account for about a fifth of supplies outside China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">That has hit beverage manufacturers in India, where the soda is available only in metal cans, in turn sparking a burst of end-times hedonism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The disruption in aluminium exports is hitting beverage manufacturing and power grid build-outs GEOPOLITICS is currently making it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[15865,43877,2032,2903,196,1604,39],"class_list":["post-130842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-persian-gulf","tag-aluminium","tag-beverages","tag-electricity","tag-energy-transition","tag-iran-war","tag-metals","tag-persian-gulf"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116637676512722525","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}