{"id":14179,"date":"2012-09-02T15:35:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T13:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/iran-says-oil-exports-unaffected-by-sanctions\/"},"modified":"2012-09-02T15:35:43","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T13:35:43","slug":"iran-says-oil-exports-unaffected-by-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/iran-says-oil-exports-unaffected-by-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran says oil exports unaffected by sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">DUBAI, Sept 2<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Iran&#8217;s oil exports are at their<br \/>\nnormal levels and are unaffected by Western embargoes, an<br \/>\nIranian oil official was quoted as saying on Sunday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t see anything abnormal, almost everything is<br \/>\nprogressing routinely,&#8221; Mohammad Ali Khatibi Tabatabaei,<br \/>\ndirector for international affairs at the National Iranian Oil<br \/>\nCompany (NIOC), told the Iranian Students&#8217; News Agency (ISNA).<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He did not give any figures on Iran&#8217;s current oil export<br \/>\nlevels.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s top oil customers have slashed Iranian purchases<br \/>\nunder pressure from European Union and U.S. sanctions that aim<br \/>\nto squeeze Tehran&#8217;s oil income and curb its nuclear programme.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s imports of Iranian crude fell to zero in July for<br \/>\nthe first time since 1981, trade ministry data showed last week.<br \/>\nTo compensate, Japan increased imports from the United Arab<br \/>\nEmirates and Iraq, among other suppliers.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa imported no crude oil from Iran in July,<br \/>\ncustoms data showed last week. The country used to import a<br \/>\nquarter of its crude from Iran.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The EU&#8217;s embargo also included a ban on insurance of Iranian<br \/>\ncargoes. Tehran has offered to provide up to $1 billion of<br \/>\ninsurance cover to Iranian vessels shipping oil.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This step has been taken in the last few months and<br \/>\neveryone saw that the insurance companies could provide $1<br \/>\nbillion in coverage,&#8221; Tabatabaei was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/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>DUBAI, Sept 2 (Reuters) &#8211; Iran&#8217;s oil exports are at their normal levels and are unaffected by Western embargoes, an Iranian oil official was quoted as saying on Sunday. &#8220;We don&#8217;t see anything abnormal, almost everything is progressing routinely,&#8221; Mohammad Ali Khatibi Tabatabaei, director for international affairs at the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), told [&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-14179","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\/14179","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=14179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}