{"id":20609,"date":"2026-03-27T00:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T00:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/iran-war-pouring-money-into-russias-war-coffers-swedish-defense-chief\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T00:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T00:22:08","slug":"iran-war-pouring-money-into-russias-war-coffers-swedish-defense-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/iran-war-pouring-money-into-russias-war-coffers-swedish-defense-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran war &#8216;pouring&#8217; money into Russia&#8217;s war coffers: Swedish defense chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia is taking advantage of the war in Iran by &ldquo;pouring&rdquo; increased oil revenue into its war effort in Ukraine, according to the commander of Sweden&#8217;s armed forces. In an exclusive interview with Blue Light News on Thursday, Gen. Michael Claesson said the influx of oil money for Moscow &mdash; caused by a chokehold on the&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5802889-russia-iran-oil-war-impact\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia is taking advantage of the war in Iran by &ldquo;pouring&rdquo; increased oil revenue into its war effort in Ukraine, according to the commander of Sweden&#8217;s armed forces. In an exclusive interview with Blue Light News on Thursday, Gen. Michael Claesson said the influx of oil money for Moscow &mdash; caused by a chokehold on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}