{"id":9196,"date":"2012-03-22T15:24:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T13:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/s-africa-says-has-suspended-iran-oil-imports\/"},"modified":"2012-03-22T15:24:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T13:24:43","slug":"s-africa-says-has-suspended-iran-oil-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-says-has-suspended-iran-oil-imports\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa says has suspended Iran oil imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">PRETORIA, March 22<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa has suspended<br \/>\nalmost all of its oil imports from Iran and intends to abide by<br \/>\na U.S. request to significantly drop its supplies from the<br \/>\nstate, a senior diplomat said on Thursday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(To my knowledge), no Iranian oil is flowing into our<br \/>\ncountry,&#8221; deputy foreign minister Ebrahim Ebrahim told a news<br \/>\nconference.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If there is any, it is very little.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa is on a State Department list of 12 countries<br \/>\nthat buy Iranian oil and could be subject to U.S. sanctions<br \/>\nunless they significantly cut purchases.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Jon Herskovitz, editing 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>PRETORIA, March 22 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa has suspended almost all of its oil imports from Iran and intends to abide by a U.S. request to significantly drop its supplies from the state, a senior diplomat said on Thursday. &#8220;(To my knowledge), no Iranian oil is flowing into our country,&#8221; deputy foreign minister Ebrahim Ebrahim [&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-9196","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\/9196","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=9196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}