{"id":404932,"date":"2021-03-15T11:55:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T06:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=404932"},"modified":"2021-03-15T12:59:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T07:29:26","slug":"uae-sheikh-lays-claim-to-oil-cargo-that-us-seized-alleging-irans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/uae-sheikh-lays-claim-to-oil-cargo-that-us-seized-alleging-irans\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE sheikh lays claim to oil cargo that US seized alleging Iran&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US attempt to prevent Iran exporting oil suffered a blow after a United Arab Emirates sheikh laid claim to a cargo that Washington seized and alleged is from the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n<p>A company controlled by the Emirate of Fujairah\u2019s ruler told a US court that the roughly 2 million barrels of crude was originally from Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Fujairah International Oil &amp; Gas Corp., wholly owned by Sheikh Hamad bin Mohammed Al Sharqi, said it\u2019s an intermediary seller of the oil, according to a claim filed in a federal court in the District of Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>The case underscores the difficulty the US faces as it tries to bar Iran from generating income from energy sales and pressure it into re-starting nuclear talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US attempt to prevent Iran exporting oil suffered a blow after a United Arab Emirates sheikh laid claim to a cargo that Washington seized and alleged is from the Islamic Republic. A company controlled by the Emirate of Fujairah\u2019s ruler told a US court that the roughly 2 million barrels of crude was originally from Iraq. Fujairah International Oil &amp; Gas Corp., wholly owned by Sheikh Hamad bin Mohammed Al Sharqi, said it\u2019s an intermediary seller of the oil, according to a claim filed in a federal court in the District of Columbia. The case underscores the difficulty the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404932","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}