{"id":372106,"date":"2018-08-04T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-considers-iran-obstacle-to-mideast-domination\/"},"modified":"2018-08-04T16:52:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T15:52:00","slug":"presstv-us-considers-iran-obstacle-to-mideast-domination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-considers-iran-obstacle-to-mideast-domination\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018US considers Iran obstacle to Mideast domination\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The United States regards the Islamic Republic of Iran as its primary obstacle to its total domination of the Middle East, American political analyst Keith Preston says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Preston, chief editor of\u00a0<em>AttacktheSystem.com, <\/em>made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Saturday while commenting on a <em>Bloomberg <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2018\/08\/03\/570066\/Iran-oil-exports-China-India-US-sanctions\">report <\/a>which has revealed that China has rejected a US demand to cut Iranian oil imports despite Washington\u2019s attempts to bring down the Islamic Republic&#8217;s oil sales to zero<\/p>\n<p><em>Bloomberg <\/em>quoted informed officials as saying that the US had been unable to persuade China to cut Iranian oil imports and that Beijing&#8217;s\u00a0purchases from Tehran\u00a0last month remained unchanged. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a blow to US President Donald Trump\u2019s efforts to isolate Iran after his withdrawal from a 2015 nuclear deal with the country,\u00a0officially known\u00a0as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), they said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Beijing,\u00a0however, agreed not to increase purchases of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/08\/04\/570192\/US-considers-Iran-an-obstacle-to-Mideast-domination\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States regards the Islamic Republic of Iran as its primary obstacle to its total domination of the Middle East, American political analyst Keith Preston says. Preston, chief editor of\u00a0AttacktheSystem.com, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Saturday while commenting on a Bloomberg report which has revealed that China has rejected [&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-372106","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\/372106","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=372106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}