{"id":134921,"date":"2026-03-20T16:02:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/switzerland-suspends-war-material-exports-to-u-s-amid-middle-east-conflict\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T16:02:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:02:56","slug":"switzerland-suspends-war-material-exports-to-u-s-amid-middle-east-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/switzerland-suspends-war-material-exports-to-u-s-amid-middle-east-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland suspends war material exports to U.S. amid Middle East conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GENEVA, Mar 20 \u2013 The Swiss Federal Council said on Friday that Switzerland has halted the export of war materiel to the United States during the ongoing conflict involving the United States, Israel and Iran<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Federal Council said that \u201cexports of war material to the USA cannot currently be authorized,\u201d as the country is \u201cinvolved in an international armed conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the escalation of the conflict on 28 February, no new licences have been issued for exports of war materiel to the USA. No definitive licences for the export of war material to Israel have been granted for a number of years. The same applies to Iran,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The statement also noted that an interdepartmental group of experts will regularly review existing licenses and other exports to the United States, and assess whether further action is required.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENEVA, Mar 20 \u2013 The Swiss Federal Council said on Friday that Switzerland has halted the export of war materiel to the United States during the ongoing conflict involving the United States, Israel and Iran. In a statement, the Federal Council said that \u201cexports of war material to the USA cannot currently be authorized,\u201d as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}