{"id":405161,"date":"2021-03-16T11:39:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T06:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=405161"},"modified":"2021-03-16T11:39:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T06:09:48","slug":"uae-sheikh-lays-claim-to-oil-cargo-us-says-is-from-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/uae-sheikh-lays-claim-to-oil-cargo-us-says-is-from-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE sheikh lays claim to oil cargo US says is from Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US policy of stopping Iran from exporting oil suffered a setback 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. 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 policy of stopping Iran from exporting oil suffered a setback 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 [&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":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405161","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=405161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}