{"id":11508,"date":"2012-06-15T11:23:19","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T09:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/s-africa-hopes-for-eu-breakthrough-over-iran-oil\/"},"modified":"2012-06-15T11:23:19","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T09:23:19","slug":"s-africa-hopes-for-eu-breakthrough-over-iran-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-hopes-for-eu-breakthrough-over-iran-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa hopes for EU &quot;breakthrough&quot; over Iran oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">CAPE TOWN, June 15<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa expects a<br \/>\n&#8220;breakthrough&#8221; soon in its discussions with Brussels about the<br \/>\nimpact of European Union sanctions on oil exports from Iran,<br \/>\nhistorically its biggest supplier of crude, a top South African<br \/>\nenergy official said on Friday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is going to be a meeting in Moscow quite shortly,<br \/>\nwhich we firmly believe is going provide a breakthrough with<br \/>\nregard to the sanctions,&#8221; Nelisiwe Magubane, director general in<br \/>\nthe energy department, told reporters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We put our case in a manner that indicated that the<br \/>\nsanctions are not just going to impact the South African<br \/>\neconomy, but it is also going to impact that of our neighbours.&#8221;\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Wendell Roelf; Editing by Ed Cropley)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE TOWN, June 15 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa expects a &#8220;breakthrough&#8221; soon in its discussions with Brussels about the impact of European Union sanctions on oil exports from Iran, historically its biggest supplier of crude, a top South African energy official said on Friday. &#8220;There is going to be a meeting in Moscow quite shortly, [&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-11508","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\/11508","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=11508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}