{"id":47230,"date":"2026-10-05T08:01:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T06:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47230"},"modified":"2026-10-05T08:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T06:01:22","slug":"irans-oil-minister-resigns-no-reason-given","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/irans-oil-minister-resigns-no-reason-given\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s oil Minister resigns, no reason given"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad has resigned, and Hamid Bovard, Chief Executive \u200cof the government-owned National Iranian Oil Company, will be in charge of the \u200bMinistry as acting Minister.<\/p>\n<p>No reason has been given by state \u200bmedia in Iran for the resignation.<\/p>\n<p>Mohsen \u200bPaknejad has been the oil \u200bMinister since August 2024.<\/p>\n<p>His resignation comes as the seven-month \u200bwar between Iran and the \u200bUnited States puts pressure on the country\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36273,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[],"class_list":["post-47230","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Mohsen \u200bPaknejad has been the oil \u200bMinister since August 2024.","published_date":"","news_description":"Mohsen \u200bPaknejad has been the oil \u200bMinister since August 2024.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47231,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47230\/revisions\/47231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=47230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}