{"id":74845,"date":"2019-05-02T14:58:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T19:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/persian-heritage.com\/wordpress\/?p=74845"},"modified":"2019-05-02T14:58:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T19:58:08","slug":"us-ending-iranian-oil-sanctions-waivers-share-usa-us-ending-iranian-oil-sanctions-waivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2019\/05\/02\/us-ending-iranian-oil-sanctions-waivers-share-usa-us-ending-iranian-oil-sanctions-waivers\/","title":{"rendered":"US Ending Iranian Oil Sanctions Waivers share USA US Ending Iranian Oil Sanctions Waivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hdr-container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-2 pull-left article-share\">\n<aside class=\"share flex-column js-share--apply-sticky js-share--expandable js-share--horizontal\" data-extended=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74851\" src=\"http:\/\/persian-heritage.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/oilWEB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/oilWEB.jpg 290w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/oilWEB-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/oilWEB-24x17.jpg 24w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/oilWEB-36x25.jpg 36w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/oilWEB-48x33.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/>VOA &#8211; The United States is tightening its economic sanctions on Iran by ending a set of waivers Thursday that had allowed some of the country\u2019s largest oil buyers to continue their purchases. With the expiration of waivers for eight buyers, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the United States would be exerting \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d on the Iranian government. The U.S. State Department called the move a fulfillment of the Trump administration\u2019s promise \u201cto get Iran\u2019s oil exports to zero and deny the regime the revenue it needs to fund terrorism and violent wars abroad.\u201d The move is the latest in a series of steps the United States has taken since President Trump took office with a pledge to withdraw from the international agreement that limited Iran\u2019s nuclear program in exchange for relief from economic sanctions.<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more-->Trump announced the withdrawal in May 2018, and new sanctions went into place in November, with oil purchase waivers in place for China, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Turkey, Italy and Greece.<\/p>\n<div class=\"body-container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-12 col-md-10 col-lg-10 pull-right\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-12 col-md-8 col-lg-8 pull-left bottom-offset content-offset\">\n<div id=\"article-content\" class=\"content-floated-wrap fb-quotable\">\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>Since then, Italy, Greece and Taiwan have halted their Iranian oil imports.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said Wednesday that the United States will not be able to bring Iranian oil exports to zero, and that Iran\u2019s oil-producing neighbors have exaggerated their ability to increase their production to a level that would replace the Iranian oil being blocked from the market.<\/p>\n<p>Since announcing last month its intention to end the oil sanctions waivers, the Trump administration has expressed confidence that countries such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates would offset any loss in Iranian oil.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey and China have attacked the U.S. action, but it is not clear whether they will continue to buy Iranian oil.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOA &#8211; The United States is tightening its economic sanctions on Iran by ending a set of waivers Thursday that had allowed some of the country\u2019s largest oil buyers to continue their purchases. With the expiration of waivers for eight buyers, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the United States would be exerting \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}