{"id":55193,"date":"2026-03-13T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=55193"},"modified":"2026-03-13T13:03:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:03:00","slug":"it-costs-iran-7000-to-produce-one-of-these-shahed-drones-that-have-been-ravaging-us-bases-in-the-persian-gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=55193","title":{"rendered":"It costs Iran $7,000 to produce one of these Shahed drones that have been ravaging US bases in the Persian Gulf&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>&#8230;That&#8217;s the same amount Israel pays Instagram and TikTok influencers for each post spreading Israeli propaganda.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It costs Iran $7,000 to produce one of these Shahed drones that have been ravaging US bases in the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>That&#39;s the same amount Israel pays Instagram and TikTok influencers for each post spreading Israeli propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>Let that sink in. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XFDSvHNu9N\">https:\/\/t.co\/XFDSvHNu9N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Trita Parsi (@tparsi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tparsi\/status\/2032120863835697374?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;That&#8217;s the same amount Israel pays Instagram and TikTok influencers for each post spreading Israeli propaganda. It costs Iran $7,000 to produce one of these Shahed drones that have been ravaging US bases in the Persian Gulf. That&#39;s the same &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=55193\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}