{"id":585380,"date":"2026-08-15T09:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T09:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/585380\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T09:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T09:40:12","slug":"irans-economic-problems-worsened-as-israel-us-war-damaged-factories-cut-oil-sales-pezeshkian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/585380\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s economic problems worsened as Israel-US war damaged factories, cut oil sales: Pezeshkian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has said Iran\u2019s economic problems have sharply worsened since its war with the US and Israel.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">He said during a meeting that rising prices are driven by higher import costs and falling state revenues caused by reduced oil sales, according to Iranian media.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Pezeshkian says imported goods once entered Iran through more direct routes, but now take longer and more expensive routes, pushing up prices.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">He also underlined that declining oil sales have cut government revenues, with Iran unable to sell oil at previous levels.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">&#8220;Our income has also decreased. We used to sell oil, now we can&#8217;t,&#8221; Pezeshkian said.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Damage to industrial facilities has added to the economic strain, the Iranian leader noted, as many factories were hit and destroyed during the Israel-US attacks.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Pezeshkian noted that the damage has also reduced tax revenues, leaving the government struggling to collect payments from affected factories.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">&#8220;We can&#8217;t collect taxes from factories, and not only that, we have to give them money so they can stay afloat,&#8221; the Iranian president said.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">\u201cOur problems have worsened dramatically, while our income has declined,\u201d Pezehskian said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has said Iran\u2019s economic problems have sharply worsened since its war with the US&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-585380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}