{"id":9169,"date":"2012-03-22T03:23:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T01:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/factbox-iranian-oil-buyers-that-could-be-subject-to-us-sanctions\/"},"modified":"2012-03-22T03:23:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T01:23:55","slug":"factbox-iranian-oil-buyers-that-could-be-subject-to-us-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/factbox-iranian-oil-buyers-that-could-be-subject-to-us-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"FACTBOX-Iranian oil buyers that could be subject to US sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">March 21<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; The U.S. State Department this week<br \/>\nsaid 12 countries that buy Iranian oil could eventually be<br \/>\nsubject to U.S. sanctions unless they cut shipments of the crude<br \/>\nbut did not name which nations those were.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The department released the number on Tuesday after saying<br \/>\nthe United States would grant exemptions to the sanctions to<br \/>\nJapan and 10 countries in the European Union that have cut<br \/>\nshipments of Iranian oil.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Countries that got the six-month exemptions have been given<br \/>\na reprieve from the threat of being cut off from the U.S.<br \/>\nfinancial system under the sanctions designed to pressure Iran<br \/>\nover its nuclear program, which the West suspects is intended to<br \/>\nproduce weapons.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A government source, who is not in the State Department,<br \/>\ngave Reuters a list of 13 countries that did not get an<br \/>\nexemption on Tuesday. The 13 have received at least one cargo of<br \/>\nIranian crude from early 2011 to early 2012. The source did not<br \/>\nexplain why there were 13 countries listed as buyers &#8211; one more<br \/>\nthan the number of countries the State Department said could<br \/>\neventually be subject to sanctions.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Below is a list of 13 countries which includes China and<br \/>\nIndia, the top two importers of Iran&#8217;s crude, and South Korea,<br \/>\nthe fourth top buyer.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Country:                 Rank in top 10 buyers of Iran crude<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>China                    1<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 21 (Reuters) &#8211; The U.S. State Department this week said 12 countries that buy Iranian oil could eventually be subject to U.S. sanctions unless they cut shipments of the crude but did not name which nations those were. The department released the number on Tuesday after saying the United States would grant exemptions to [&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-9169","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\/9169","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=9169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}