{"id":279787,"date":"2019-06-29T06:16:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T06:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=279787"},"modified":"2019-06-29T06:16:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T06:16:50","slug":"china-rejects-us-sanctions-on-iranian-oil-exports-says-will-import-oil-from-tehran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/china-rejects-us-sanctions-on-iranian-oil-exports-says-will-import-oil-from-tehran\/","title":{"rendered":"China rejects US sanctions on Iranian oil exports, says will import oil from Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China said Friday it would import Iranian oil in defiance of US sanctions on Tehran, a day before US and Chinese leaders are to meet to try to resolve thorny trade disputes. \u201cWe reject the unilateral imposition of sanctions,\u201d said Fu Cong, Director General of the Chinese Foreign Ministry\u2019s Department of Arms Control.<\/p>\n<p>The United States, which is trying to force Iran to renegotiate an agreement limiting its nuclear programme, at the end of May tightened sanctions to include a full ban on Iran\u2019s exports of oil and has threatened to punish nations which refuse to go along. \u201cFor us energy security is important and the importation of oil is important to Chinese energy security and also to the livelihood of the people,\u201d said Cong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China said Friday it would import Iranian oil in defiance of US sanctions on Tehran, a day before US and Chinese leaders are to meet to try to resolve thorny trade disputes. \u201cWe reject the unilateral imposition of sanctions,\u201d said Fu Cong, Director General of the Chinese Foreign Ministry\u2019s Department of Arms Control. The United States, which is trying to force Iran to renegotiate an agreement limiting its nuclear programme, at the end of May tightened sanctions to include a full ban on Iran\u2019s exports of oil and has threatened to punish nations which refuse to go along. \u201cFor us [&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":[130,195,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279787","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=279787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}