{"id":374601,"date":"2018-08-23T23:05:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T22:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-raises-the-issue-of-iran-sanctions-with-russia\/"},"modified":"2018-08-23T23:05:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T22:05:16","slug":"presstv-us-raises-the-issue-of-iran-sanctions-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-raises-the-issue-of-iran-sanctions-with-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018US raises the issue of Iran sanctions with Russia\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US National Security Adviser John Bolton says he has said raised the issue of tightening economic sanctions against Iran with the head of Russia\u2019s National Security Council, but provided no details.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bolton made the remarks at a news conference on Thursday after more than five hours of talks with Nikolai Patrushev in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>He also said they had discussed a phased withdrawal of Iran\u2019s presence in Syria during the talks. \u201cOur objective is that all Iranian forces return to Iran&#8230; And we talked about a variety of ways in which it might be accomplished through a series of steps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bolton, one of the Trump administration\u2019s leading hawks in dealing with Iran,\u00a0said that following the US withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, the Trump administration\u2019s objective was to \u201cput maximum pressure on the regime\u201d by making sanctions \u201cmore extensive and more effective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This week, Bolton held talks with Israel\u2019s Prime&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/08\/23\/572052\/US-raises-the-issue-of-tightening-Iran-sanctions-with-Russia-Bolton\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US National Security Adviser John Bolton says he has said raised the issue of tightening economic sanctions against Iran with the head of Russia\u2019s National Security Council, but provided no details. Bolton made the remarks at a news conference on Thursday after more than five hours of talks with Nikolai Patrushev in Geneva. He also [&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-374601","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\/374601","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=374601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}