{"id":374518,"date":"2018-08-23T07:50:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T06:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-to-drive-iranian-oil-exports-to-zero-bolton\/"},"modified":"2018-08-23T07:50:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T06:50:16","slug":"presstv-us-to-drive-iranian-oil-exports-to-zero-bolton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-to-drive-iranian-oil-exports-to-zero-bolton\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US to drive Iranian oil exports to zero: Bolton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump\u2019s National Security Adviser John Bolton has said the United States is exerting \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d on the government of Iran to change its behavior, adding that Washington is prepared to use sanctions to drive Iranian oil exports down to zero.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegime change in Iran is not American policy, but what we want is massive change in the regime\u2019s behavior,\u201d Bolton said on Wednesday on a visit to Israel, claiming that current sanctions had been more effective than predicted.<\/p>\n<p>Trump pulled the US out of the 2015 landmark nuclear deal between Iran and six major world powers in May and then signed an executive order\u00a0earlier this month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2018\/08\/06\/570387\/Trump-reimposes-sanctions-nuclear-Iran\">reimposing\u00a0<\/a>many sanctions on Iran to levy &#8220;maximum economic pressure&#8221; on the Islamic Republic to renegotiate the deal and to end Tehran\u2019s what Washington calls interference in Yemen, Syria and Lebanon. Iran denies any meddling in the internal affairs of these countries.<\/p>\n<p>While signing&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/08\/23\/571984\/US-to-drive-Iranian-oil-exports-to-zero-Bolton\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump\u2019s National Security Adviser John Bolton has said the United States is exerting \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d on the government of Iran to change its behavior, adding that Washington is prepared to use sanctions to drive Iranian oil exports down to zero. \u201cRegime change in Iran is not American policy, but what we want [&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-374518","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\/374518","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=374518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}