{"id":9521,"date":"2019-09-19T10:59:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T05:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=9521"},"modified":"2019-09-19T10:59:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T05:59:10","slug":"united-states-to-impose-more-sanctions-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/9521","title":{"rendered":"United States to Impose More Sanctions on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington will announce sanctions on Iran &#8220;over the next 48 hours&#8221; in response to an attack on two Saudi oil facilities last weekend blamed on Tehran, U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019ll be adding some very significant sanctions onto Iran,&#8221; Trump told reporters in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>He tweeted earlier he instructed Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to &#8220;substantially&#8221; increase economic sanctions on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he was looking at a military strike, Trump said the U.S. has &#8220;many options.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Iran, however, again denied involvement in the Sept 14 raids, which hit the world\u2019s biggest crude processing facility and initially knocked out half of Saudi production.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey want to impose maximum pressure on Iran through slander,\u201d Iran\u2019s President Hassan Rouhani said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t want conflict in the region &#8230; Who started the conflict?\u201d he added, blaming Washington and its Gulf allies for the war in Yemen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington will announce sanctions on Iran &#8220;over the next 48 hours&#8221; in response to an attack on two Saudi oil facilities last weekend blamed on Tehran, U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday. &#8220;We\u2019ll be adding some very significant sanctions onto Iran,&#8221; Trump told reporters in Los Angeles. He tweeted earlier he instructed Treasury Secretary Steven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1460,31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9521","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\/9521","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=9521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9522,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9521\/revisions\/9522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}