{"id":838131,"date":"2026-09-06T05:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T05:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/838131\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T05:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T05:56:14","slug":"live-iran-threatens-harsher-strikes-on-us-warships-as-hegseth-vows-to-sink-tankers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/838131\/","title":{"rendered":"Live &#8211; Iran threatens harsher strikes on US warships as Hegseth vows to sink tankers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"CustomPortableTextComponents-module-scss-module__peBeZa__paragraph\">Middle East crude oil exports in August were 39% below their January-February 2026 baseline of 18.5 million barrels per day, TankerTrackers reported Saturday in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"CustomPortableTextComponents-module-scss-module__peBeZa__paragraph\">The current export deficit was 7.2 million barrels per day, compared with 12.4 million in May, when exports were 67% below the baseline, according to the post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"CustomPortableTextComponents-module-scss-module__peBeZa__paragraph\">The figures cover Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Oman, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"CustomPortableTextComponents-module-scss-module__peBeZa__paragraph\">The shipping monitoring service said exports from most of those countries may recover in the coming months, but Iran\u2019s exports, which had a baseline of 1.68 million barrels per day, may remain at zero for the foreseeable future depending on any agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Middle East crude oil exports in August were 39% below their January-February 2026 baseline of 18.5 million barrels&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,801,166405,166402,166400,1570,166403,166398,166401,166399,166404,129,3,21,19,22,20,25,3667,24],"class_list":["post-838131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-iran","tag-iran-and-china","tag-iran-covid","tag-iran-economy","tag-iran-government","tag-iran-media-iran-and-the-united-states","tag-iran-news","tag-iran-nuclear","tag-iran-politics","tag-iran-us","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-sanctions","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}