{"id":10355,"date":"2012-04-30T20:29:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T18:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/update-1-s-africa-ups-oil-from-iran-despite-us-pressure\/"},"modified":"2012-04-30T20:29:12","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T18:29:12","slug":"update-1-s-africa-ups-oil-from-iran-despite-us-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-s-africa-ups-oil-from-iran-despite-us-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-S.Africa ups oil from Iran despite US pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* March Iran crude imports at 505,908 T from 417,188 T in<br \/>\nFeb<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Unclear who buys Iranian crude<\/p>\n<p> (Adds details, context)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Agnieszka Flak<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, April 30 (Reuters) &#8211; South African crude oil<br \/>\nimports from Iran rose to 3.37 billion rand ($434.8 million) in<br \/>\nMarch from 2.8 billion the previous month, customs data showed<br \/>\non Monday, indicating Pretoria had not bowed to U.S. pressure to<br \/>\ncurb commercial links with Tehran.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Revenue Service said Africa&#8217;s biggest economy imported<br \/>\n505,908 tonnes of Iranian crude in March, up from 417,188 tonnes<br \/>\nthe previous month.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa has come under Western pressure to cut Iranian<br \/>\ncrude imports as part of sanctions designed to halt Tehran&#8217;s<br \/>\nsuspected pursuit of nuclear weapons, but the response from<br \/>\ndiplomatically non-aligned Pretoria has been unclear.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa could take an economic hit if it does not<br \/>\ncomply. Its Iranian crude imports declined between October and<br \/>\nJanuary, when they reached zero, but they began rising again in<br \/>\nFebruary.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Neither the foreign ministry nor the department of energy<br \/>\nwere willing to comment.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is also not clear who bought the crude after almost all<br \/>\nSouth African refiners said in recent months that they had<br \/>\nalready found alternative suppliers.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* March Iran crude imports at 505,908 T from 417,188 T in Feb * Unclear who buys Iranian crude (Adds details, context) By Agnieszka Flak JOHANNESBURG, April 30 (Reuters) &#8211; South African crude oil imports from Iran rose to 3.37 billion rand ($434.8 million) in March from 2.8 billion the previous month, customs data showed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}