{"id":13301,"date":"2012-08-08T14:16:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T12:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/mtn-says-in-talks-with-u-s-s-africa-on-iran-money\/"},"modified":"2012-08-08T14:16:47","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T12:16:47","slug":"mtn-says-in-talks-with-u-s-s-africa-on-iran-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/mtn-says-in-talks-with-u-s-s-africa-on-iran-money\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN says in talks with U.S., S.Africa on Iran money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Aug 8 (Reuters) &#8211; MTN Group is talks<br \/>\nwith U.S. and South African authorities over repatriating<br \/>\nearnings from its Iranian business, the chief executive of the<br \/>\nSouth African mobile operator said on Wednesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sifiso Dabengwa also told reporters following the release of<br \/>\nthe company&#8217;s first-half earnings that MTN had not repatriated<br \/>\nany funds from Iran in the last six to seven months.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MTN owns 49 percent of local operator MTN Irancell. The<br \/>\ncompany has said in the past it was having difficulty moving<br \/>\nmoney out of the country due to tightening U.S. sanctions<br \/>\nagainst Tehran.    <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Helen Nyambura-Mwaura; writing by David Dolan;<br \/>\nEditing by Ed Stoddard)<\/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>JOHANNESBURG Aug 8 (Reuters) &#8211; MTN Group is talks with U.S. and South African authorities over repatriating earnings from its Iranian business, the chief executive of the South African mobile operator said on Wednesday. Sifiso Dabengwa also told reporters following the release of the company&#8217;s first-half earnings that MTN had not repatriated any funds from [&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-13301","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\/13301","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=13301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}