{"id":263567,"date":"2026-08-25T05:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T05:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/263567\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T05:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T05:54:08","slug":"us-announces-new-sanctions-on-iran-tehran-responds-pajhwok-afghan-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/263567\/","title":{"rendered":"US announces new sanctions on Iran, Tehran responds \u2013 Pajhwok Afghan News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">KABUL (Pajhwok): The Trump administration has announced new sanctions on Iran and urged US allies to support the measures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Washington was imposing new sanctions aimed at cutting off financial support for the Iranian government, Al Jazeera reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to US officials, the sanctions will target five key sectors \u2014 digital assets, technology, gold, aviation and shipping \u2014 in addition to oil revenues. The measures will also target 60 entities, vessels and individuals accused of supporting Iran\u2019s government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iranian government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani responded to the announcement by saying that Iran\u2019s president and leadership would guide the country through the \u201ceconomic hardships.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Iran\u2019s security chief, Mohsen Rezaei, warned that Tehran could halt all oil exports from the Gulf if the US continues its \u201ceconomic war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rezaei also warned that any country supporting Washington\u2019s sanctions would be considered to have committed an \u201cact of war\u201d against Iran.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, meanwhile, said Washington had not ruled out military action against Iran, including in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hegseth told reporters that the US was not ruling out \u201ckinetic strikes\u201d against targets anywhere in the region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">sa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KABUL (Pajhwok): The Trump administration has announced new sanctions on Iran and urged US allies to support the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[34,69,309],"class_list":["post-263567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tehran","tag-iran","tag-tehran","tag-trump-administration"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117154602174045620","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263567","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=263567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}