{"id":368470,"date":"2018-07-08T03:05:29","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T02:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-iran-trade-vows-over-pg-oil-transport\/"},"modified":"2018-07-08T03:05:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T02:05:29","slug":"presstv-us-iran-trade-vows-over-pg-oil-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-iran-trade-vows-over-pg-oil-transport\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US, Iran trade vows over PG oil transport"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A US military official has claimed American readiness to keep a key crude-oil transit waterway near the Iranian Persian Gulf coastline open following a stern warning by Tehran to block it in response to Trump administration\u2019s vow to prevent any export of Iran\u2019s oil as part of its hostile sanctions against the nation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Together, we stand ready to ensure the freedom of navigation and the free flow of commerce wherever international law allows,&#8221;\u00a0said US Central Command spokesman Captain Bill Urban in a statement as quoted in a Friday report by <em>Military.com<\/em>. He, however, did not elaborate on the general pledge.<\/p>\n<p>The development came after Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) declared on Thursday that it stood ready to implement President Hassan Rouhani\u2019s latest policy statement that if Tehran were not allowed to export its crude oil through the Strait of Hormuz \u2013 at the mouth of the Persian Gulf &#8212; no other country would be&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/07\/08\/567405\/US-military-Iran-Persian-Gulf-waterway-oil-transport-Strait-of-Hormuz-Captain-Bill-Urban\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US military official has claimed American readiness to keep a key crude-oil transit waterway near the Iranian Persian Gulf coastline open following a stern warning by Tehran to block it in response to Trump administration\u2019s vow to prevent any export of Iran\u2019s oil as part of its hostile sanctions against the nation. &#8220;Together, we [&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-368470","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\/368470","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=368470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}