{"id":363395,"date":"2018-05-30T17:52:45","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T16:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-imposes-new-sanctions-against-iran\/"},"modified":"2018-05-30T17:52:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T16:52:45","slug":"presstv-us-imposes-new-sanctions-against-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-imposes-new-sanctions-against-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US imposes new sanctions against Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The United States has imposed sanctions on six Iranians and two Iran-based entities, including Evin Prison and the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) over what it called \u201chuman rights abuses.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US Treasury Department announced the sanctions Wednesday on its website, saying the sanctions were imposed on the Iranian individuals and entities \u201cfor committing serious human rights abuses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran not only exports terrorism and instability across the world, it routinely violates the rights of its own people. \u00a0The Iranian regime diverts national resources that should belong to the people to fund a massive and expensive censorship apparatus and suppress free speech,\u201d Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has rejected US and Western accusations of human rights abuses in the Islamic Republic as \u201cuntrue\u201d and \u201cpolitically-motivated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the US Treasury imposed new sanctions against nine&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/05\/30\/563397\/US-imposes-new-sanctions-Iran\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has imposed sanctions on six Iranians and two Iran-based entities, including Evin Prison and the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) over what it called \u201chuman rights abuses.\u201d The US Treasury Department announced the sanctions Wednesday on its website, saying the sanctions were imposed on the Iranian individuals and entities \u201cfor committing [&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-363395","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\/363395","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=363395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}