{"id":278372,"date":"2019-06-13T05:59:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T05:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=278372"},"modified":"2019-06-13T06:05:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T06:05:04","slug":"iran-to-seek-japans-help-in-mediation-with-us-over-oil-sanctions-say-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iran-to-seek-japans-help-in-mediation-with-us-over-oil-sanctions-say-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to seek Japan\u2019s help in mediation with US over oil sanctions, say officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran will ask Japan to mediate between Tehran and Washington to ease oil sanctions imposed by the United States, Iranian officials said ahead of a visit by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.<\/p>\n<p>Abe, the first Japanese leader to visit Iran since its 1979 Islamic Revolution, arrives in Tehran as brewing confrontation between Iran and the US stokes fear of another military conflict in the crisis-ridden Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJapan can help in easing the ongoing tension between Iran and America&#8230; As a goodwill gesture, America should either lift the unjust oil sanctions or extend the waivers or suspend them,\u201d a senior Iranian official told Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran will ask Japan to mediate between Tehran and Washington to ease oil sanctions imposed by the United States, Iranian officials said ahead of a visit by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Abe, the first Japanese leader to visit Iran since its 1979 Islamic Revolution, arrives in Tehran as brewing confrontation between Iran and the US stokes fear of another military conflict in the crisis-ridden Middle East. \u201cJapan can help in easing the ongoing tension between Iran and America&#8230; As a goodwill gesture, America should either lift the unjust oil sanctions or extend the waivers or suspend them,\u201d a senior [&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-278372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278372","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=278372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}