{"id":272871,"date":"2019-05-04T06:09:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T06:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=272871"},"modified":"2019-05-04T06:16:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T06:16:15","slug":"opec-faces-the-risk-of-collapse-says-iranian-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/opec-faces-the-risk-of-collapse-says-iranian-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"OPEC faces the risk of collapse, says Iranian Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh today warned that OPEC is in danger of collapse as some nations seek to undermine their fellow members, an apparent reference to Saudi Arabia\u2019s pledge to fill the supply gap created by U.S. sanctions on Iranian exports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran is a member of OPEC for its interests and any threat from member states won\u2019t go unanswered,\u201d Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said after a meeting with OPEC Secretary General Mohammad Barkindo in Tehran on Thursday, according to the Oil Ministry\u2019s Shana news agency.<\/p>\n<p>His comments come as US President Donald Trump tries to cut the Islamic Republic\u2019s oil exports to zero, backed by a promise from Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies to increase production to ensure the squeeze doesn\u2019t create a supply shortage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh today warned that OPEC is in danger of collapse as some nations seek to undermine their fellow members, an apparent reference to Saudi Arabia\u2019s pledge to fill the supply gap created by U.S. sanctions on Iranian exports. \u201cIran is a member of OPEC for its interests and any threat from member states won\u2019t go unanswered,\u201d Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said after a meeting with OPEC Secretary General Mohammad Barkindo in Tehran on Thursday, according to the Oil Ministry\u2019s Shana news agency. His comments come as US President Donald Trump tries to cut the Islamic Republic\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"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-272871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272871","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}