{"id":9211,"date":"2012-03-23T03:24:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T01:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/update-2-s-africa-says-has-suspended-iran-oil-imports\/"},"modified":"2012-03-23T03:24:38","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T01:24:38","slug":"update-2-s-africa-says-has-suspended-iran-oil-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-s-africa-says-has-suspended-iran-oil-imports\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-S.Africa says has suspended Iran oil imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Sasol says found alternative to Iran product<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Iran is leading crude supplier to Africa&#8217;s biggest economy<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jon Herskovitz<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>PRETORIA, March 22 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa has suspended<br \/>\nalmost all oil imports from Iran, its biggest crude supplier, in<br \/>\nresponse to U.S. diplomatic pressure, a senior diplomat said on<br \/>\nThursday, adding Pretoria was unhappy about being strong-armed<br \/>\nby Washington.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Iran accounts for about 29 percent of oil imports to<br \/>\nAfrica&#8217;s biggest economy, according to the U.S. Energy<br \/>\nInformation Administration, making it tough to switch suppliers.<\/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. &#8220;If there is any, it is very little.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The comments raised some eyebrows in the industry after<br \/>\nenergy minister Dipuo Peters said only last week the country<br \/>\nwould take until the end of May to formulate a plan for<br \/>\nreplacing Iranian crude.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Her department was not immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Avhapfani Tshifularo, executive director at the South<br \/>\nAfrican Petroleum Industry Association (SAPIA), said it was hard<br \/>\nto believe how Ebrahim&#8217;s comments could be correct given what<br \/>\nthe minister and her department said last week.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Sasol says found alternative to Iran product * Iran is leading crude supplier to Africa&#8217;s biggest economy By Jon Herskovitz PRETORIA, March 22 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa has suspended almost all oil imports from Iran, its biggest crude supplier, in response to U.S. diplomatic pressure, a senior diplomat said on Thursday, adding Pretoria was [&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-9211","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\/9211","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=9211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}