{"id":270994,"date":"2019-04-24T07:21:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T07:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=270994"},"modified":"2019-04-24T07:21:02","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T07:21:02","slug":"stand-up-to-us-continue-to-buy-oil-from-iran-congress-cpm-tell-pm-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/stand-up-to-us-continue-to-buy-oil-from-iran-congress-cpm-tell-pm-modi\/","title":{"rendered":"Stand up to US, continue to buy oil from Iran: Congress, CPM tell PM Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With US President Donald Trump ending exemptions from sanctions for India and other countries buying oil from Iran, the Congress and the CPI(M) have asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to \u201cstand up\u201d to the American government.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress said the US decision was a \u201cdirect assault and attack on India\u2019s political and economic sovereignty\u201d, adding that it was a failure of Modi\u2019s \u201cpersonalised diplomacy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe American decision to impose sanctions from May 1 on countries that buy oil from Iran or have commercial ties with Iran with is a direct assault and attack on India\u2019s political and economic sovereignty. It is a failure of Modi\u2019s diplomacy that he could not convince the man whom he has hugged on more than one occasion,\u201d Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With US President Donald Trump ending exemptions from sanctions for India and other countries buying oil from Iran, the Congress and the CPI(M) have asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to \u201cstand up\u201d to the American government. The Congress said the US decision was a \u201cdirect assault and attack on India\u2019s political and economic sovereignty\u201d, adding that it was a failure of Modi\u2019s \u201cpersonalised diplomacy\u201d. \u201cThe American decision to impose sanctions from May 1 on countries that buy oil from Iran or have commercial ties with Iran with is a direct assault and attack on India\u2019s political and economic sovereignty. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}