{"id":290599,"date":"2019-09-05T07:07:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T07:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=290599"},"modified":"2019-09-05T07:15:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T07:15:17","slug":"us-slaps-sanctions-on-iran-shipping-network-over-syria-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-slaps-sanctions-on-iran-shipping-network-over-syria-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"US slaps sanctions on Iran shipping network over Syria oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on a shipping network it said was run by Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guards, saying it sold millions of barrels of oil to benefit Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. <\/p>\n<p>The sanctions on 16 entities, 10 people and 11 vessels were announced just as Iran was threatening to cut further its commitments under a nuclear deal unless the United States eases its pressure. <\/p>\n<p>The Treasury Department said that the Qods Force, a unit of the elite Revolutionary Guards responsible for external operations, had backed both Assad and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah through crude oil shipments, mostly to Syria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on a shipping network it said was run by Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guards, saying it sold millions of barrels of oil to benefit Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The sanctions on 16 entities, 10 people and 11 vessels were announced just as Iran was threatening to cut further its commitments under a nuclear deal unless the United States eases its pressure. The Treasury Department said that the Qods Force, a unit of the elite Revolutionary Guards responsible for external operations, had backed both Assad and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah through crude oil shipments, mostly to [&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":[130,211,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290599","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=290599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}