{"id":47211,"date":"2026-04-01T18:14:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/47211\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T18:14:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:14:57","slug":"iran-takes-aim-at-the-industries-behind-the-gulfs-pivot-from-oil-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/47211\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Takes Aim at the Industries Behind the Gulf\u2019s Pivot From Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1akm6h5-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\">The oil states of the Persian Gulf have made great strides to diversify their economies in recent years, but they have also created a new vulnerability: more strategic targets for Iran to hit.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1akm6h5-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\">Outgunned militarily, Iran is wreaking economic havoc in the Middle East by attacking factories that produce aluminum and steel, targeting services such as banking <a data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/dubai-turns-to-glossy-marketing-and-social-media-crackdown-to-protect-its-image-7382e3b5?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">and tourism<\/a>, and disrupting the region\u2019s trade in products like fruit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-16aepit e1jdulti0\">Copyright \u00a92026 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The oil states of the Persian Gulf have made great strides to diversify their economies in recent years,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[5959,19466,488,19461,19455,5955,19453,154,911,897,19463,5966,197,19449,5953,13915,19462,34,37,19465,19452,19458,19459,19460,19454,49,857,1661,1284,5958,1737,213,5954,19450,39,5975,5957,5976,5960,19456,19457,50,19464,19451,5965,1520,51,5967],"class_list":["post-47211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-persian-gulf","tag-armed-forces","tag-arts","tag-asia","tag-corporate","tag-corporate-industrial-news","tag-developing-economies","tag-emerging-market-countries","tag-energy","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-gas","tag-gas-upstream-operations","tag-gcapi","tag-general-news","tag-gfx-contrib","tag-hard-commodities","tag-hospitality","tag-industrial-news","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-leisure","tag-leisure-arts-hospitality","tag-linki1-wp-wsj-0003460644","tag-linki3-wp-wsj-0003460644","tag-linki4-wp-wsj-0003460644","tag-mediterranean-countries","tag-middle-east","tag-middle-east-and-north-africa","tag-military-operations","tag-national","tag-national-public-security","tag-north-america","tag-oil","tag-oil-gas","tag-oil-gas-upstream-operations","tag-persian-gulf","tag-political","tag-political-general-news","tag-public-security","tag-risk-news","tag-risk-topics-geopolitics","tag-risk-topics-supply-chain","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-support-activities-for-oil","tag-support-activities-for-oil-gas","tag-synd","tag-tourism","tag-united-states","tag-wsj-pro-wsj-com"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47211","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=47211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}