{"id":278584,"date":"2019-06-14T07:28:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T07:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=278584"},"modified":"2019-06-14T07:28:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T07:28:10","slug":"iran-denies-role-in-gulf-of-oman-attacks-on-oil-tankers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iran-denies-role-in-gulf-of-oman-attacks-on-oil-tankers\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran denies role in Gulf of Oman attacks on oil tankers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry on Friday dismissed as \u201cbaseless\u201d US accusations of being behind attacks on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman, adding Washington was trying to \u201csabotage diplomacy\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>The US had \u201cimmediately jumped to make allegations against Iran &#8211;(without) a shred of factual or circumstantial evidence,\u201d Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a tweet. <\/p>\n<p>That showed it was \u201cabundantly clear that the #B_Team is moving to a #PlanB: Sabotage diplomacy &#8212; including by @AbeShinzo &#8212; and cover up its #EconomicTerrorism against Iran\u201d. Zarif regularly uses the term \u201cB Team\u201d to refer to US National Security Advisor John Bolton as well as Israel\u2019s Prime Minister, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, who are all pushing a hard line on Tehran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry on Friday dismissed as \u201cbaseless\u201d US accusations of being behind attacks on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman, adding Washington was trying to \u201csabotage diplomacy\u201d. The US had \u201cimmediately jumped to make allegations against Iran &#8211;(without) a shred of factual or circumstantial evidence,\u201d Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a tweet. That showed it was \u201cabundantly clear that the #B_Team is moving to a #PlanB: Sabotage diplomacy &#8212; including by @AbeShinzo &#8212; and cover up its #EconomicTerrorism against Iran\u201d. Zarif regularly uses the term \u201cB Team\u201d to refer to US National Security Advisor John Bolton [&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-278584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278584","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=278584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}