{"id":331312,"date":"2017-10-20T13:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/european-business-deals-with-iran-safe\/"},"modified":"2017-10-20T13:00:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T12:00:23","slug":"european-business-deals-with-iran-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/european-business-deals-with-iran-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"European business deals with Iran safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says the US is not opposed to European countries doing business with Iran, in a stance contradicting\u00a0President Donald Trump&#8217;s belligerent rhetoric against Tehran.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tillerson&#8217;s remarks in an interview with\u00a0The Wall Street Journal published Friday came\u00a0one week after Trump refused to certify the Iran nuclear deal and left its fate to the US Congress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The president&#8217;s been pretty clear that it&#8217;s not his intent to interfere with business deals that the Europeans may have under way with Iran,&#8221; Tillerson told the Journal.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has threatened a &#8220;total termination&#8221; of the landmark 2015 nuclear deal with Iran unless Congress tightens sanctions on the country, which could make business with Tehran even harder.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), terminated the nuclear-related sanctions by the United Nations, the US, and the European Union that had been imposed on Iran. Tehran&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/10\/20\/539240\/US-Tillerson-Iran-JCPOA-European-businesses\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says the US is not opposed to European countries doing business with Iran, in a stance contradicting\u00a0President Donald Trump&#8217;s belligerent rhetoric against Tehran.\u00a0 Tillerson&#8217;s remarks in an interview with\u00a0The Wall Street Journal published Friday came\u00a0one week after Trump refused to certify the Iran nuclear deal and left its fate to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-331312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}