{"id":8981,"date":"2019-09-05T10:11:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T05:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=8981"},"modified":"2019-09-05T10:11:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T05:11:27","slug":"us-sanctions-irans-space-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/8981","title":{"rendered":"US sanctions Iran&#8217;s space program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States imposed sanctions on Iran\u2019s civilian space agency and two research organizations for its involvement in the regime\u2019s ballistic missile development, the State\u00a0 Department \u00a0announced.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/united-states-imposes-new-sanctions-designations-on-irans-space-program-as-tehran-continues-to-use-civilian-space-agencies-to-advance-its-ballistic-missile-programs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In a statement<\/a>, the department sanctioned the Iran Space Agency and two affiliates for \u201cengaging in proliferation-sensitive activities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The sanctions, part of a years-long U.S. pressure campaign to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons, are the first imposed on Iran\u2019s space agencies, according to the State Department.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came five days after a rocket exploded at the\u00a0Imam Khomeini Space Center in the northern province of Semnan. An Iranian official said the explosion resulted from\u00a0a technical malfunction during a test.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0 Tehran denies its space activity is a cover for developing weapon launches.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"DPSlot_container StandardArticleBody_dp-slot-inline\">\n<div id=\"dpslot_native_13754730_USKCN1VO2ED\" class=\"DPSlot_slot\">Trump withdrew from a 2015 multi-national nuclear deal with Iran, saying it did not go far enough.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States imposed sanctions on Iran\u2019s civilian space agency and two research organizations for its involvement in the regime\u2019s ballistic missile development, the State\u00a0 Department \u00a0announced. In a statement, the department sanctioned the Iran Space Agency and two affiliates for \u201cengaging in proliferation-sensitive activities.&#8221; The sanctions, part of a years-long U.S. pressure campaign to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1460,31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8981"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8984,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981\/revisions\/8984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}