{"id":12190,"date":"2012-07-07T00:16:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T22:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/turkey-oil-imports-from-iran-plummet\/"},"modified":"2012-07-07T00:16:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T22:16:24","slug":"turkey-oil-imports-from-iran-plummet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/turkey-oil-imports-from-iran-plummet\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey oil imports from Iran plummet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Loading data shows Turkish imports of Iran oil slump in<br \/>\nJune<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Iran&#8217;s support for Assad in Syria strains ties with Turkey<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Iran losing billions as new Western sanctions curb exports<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Dmitry Zhdannikov<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, July 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Turkey has steeply slashed<br \/>\nIranian oil imports in June, dealing another blow to Tehran&#8217;s<br \/>\nstretched finances as its crude exports towards even the most<br \/>\nloyal customers plummet due to Western sanctions.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Iran, which relies on oil for more than half its budget<br \/>\nrevenues, is already seeing crude exports fall sharply from<br \/>\nregular levels of last year as the West raises pressure to force<br \/>\nTehran to abandon its nuclear programme.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Loading data showed this week that Turkey, which is among<br \/>\nIran&#8217;s top five customers, imported only three 150,000-tonne<br \/>\ncargoes with Iranian crude in June through its two key ports of<br \/>\nAliaga and Tutunciftlik, averaging 110,000 barrels per day.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>That represents a big decline from an average of 180,000 bpd<br \/>\nimported last year and a huge slump from 250,000-280,000 bpd<br \/>\nTurkey imported during some months in early 2012.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Trade between Turkey and Iran has risen sharply over the<br \/>\npast decade, and Turkey was regarded as a possible weak link in<br \/>\nthe international sanctions against Iran due to a long history<br \/>\nof close relations between the neighbours.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Loading data shows Turkish imports of Iran oil slump in June * Iran&#8217;s support for Assad in Syria strains ties with Turkey * Iran losing billions as new Western sanctions curb exports By Dmitry Zhdannikov LONDON, July 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Turkey has steeply slashed Iranian oil imports in June, dealing another blow to Tehran&#8217;s [&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-12190","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\/12190","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=12190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}