{"id":263092,"date":"2026-08-24T20:26:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T20:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/263092\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T20:26:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T20:26:27","slug":"us-can-still-strike-strait-of-hormuz-targets-pete-hegseth-warns-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/263092\/","title":{"rendered":"US can still strike Strait of Hormuz targets, Pete Hegseth warns Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Monday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/american-politics\/article-906467\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">US President Donald Trump&#8217;s<\/a> administration was not ruling out using military force against Iran, even as Washington unveiled an &#8220;economic D-Day&#8221; against Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By no means are we foreclosing using kinetic strikes anywhere in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-906398\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Strait of Hormuz<\/a> or around Iran,&#8221; Hegseth told reporters, adding that Iran could not handle the economic pressure being put on it.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Monday that US President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration was not ruling out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[38,102,34,90,29365,212,92,772,101],"class_list":["post-263092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-donald-trump","tag-hormuz","tag-iran","tag-khamenei","tag-operation-economic-fury","tag-operation-epic-fury","tag-operation-roaring-lion","tag-pete-hegseth","tag-strait-of-hormuz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117152368801499756","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263092","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=263092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}