{"id":22172,"date":"2026-05-02T14:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pentagon-says-us-naval-blockade-has-cost-iran-4-8-billion\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T14:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:22:07","slug":"pentagon-says-us-naval-blockade-has-cost-iran-4-8-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pentagon-says-us-naval-blockade-has-cost-iran-4-8-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon says US naval blockade has cost Iran $4.8 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Defense Department has estimated that the U.S. naval blockade has cost Iran about $4.8 billion in oil revenue, a Pentagon official familiar with the assessment told Blue Light News late Friday.&nbsp; The blockade, which was instituted more than two weeks ago, is one of the actions President Trump has used to inflict pressure on Iran&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5860339-pentagon-estimates-iran-blockade-cost\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Defense Department has estimated that the U.S. naval blockade has cost Iran about $4.8 billion in oil revenue, a Pentagon official familiar with the assessment told Blue Light News late Friday.&nbsp; The blockade, which was instituted more than two weeks ago, is one of the actions President Trump has used to inflict pressure on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22172","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\/22172","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=22172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}