{"id":374807,"date":"2018-08-25T09:04:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T08:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-slams-eus-20mn-development-aid-to-iran-as-sending-wrong-message-at-the-wrong-time-rt-us-news\/"},"modified":"2018-08-25T09:04:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T08:04:19","slug":"us-slams-eus-20mn-development-aid-to-iran-as-sending-wrong-message-at-the-wrong-time-rt-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-slams-eus-20mn-development-aid-to-iran-as-sending-wrong-message-at-the-wrong-time-rt-us-news\/","title":{"rendered":"US slams EU\u2019s $20mn development aid to Iran as sending \u2018wrong message at the wrong time\u2019 \u2014 RT US News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.08\/thumbnail\/5b80987dfc7e932f098b4568.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        Washington said the EU\u2019s latest Iran development aid package of \u20ac18 million is \u201csending the wrong message\u201d and apparently undermining its efforts to isolate the Islamic republic with unilateral sanctions.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>\u201cThe European Union\u2019s August 23 announcement of a new $20.7 million payment that will widen economic and sectoral relations between Iran and Europe sends the wrong message at the wrong time,\u201d<\/em> US State Department Special Representative Brian Hook said.<\/p>\n<p>The US official went on to claim that Tehran will gratefully take the EU money and use it to <em>\u201cconduct assassinations in those very European countries.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Special Rep Hook: EU\u2019s new $20.7 million payment to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> perpetuates the regime\u2019s ability to neglect the needs of its people &amp; stifles meaningful policy changes. More money in the hands of the Ayatollah means more money to conduct assassinations in those very European countries. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lAWMc3daFT\">pic.twitter.com\/lAWMc3daFT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Department of State (@StateDept) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateDept\/status\/1033127128122970113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 24, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>The aid sum, agreed on Thursday, is part of a wider package of \u20ac50 million earmarked for Iran in the EU budget, and highlights Europe\u2019s high-profile efforts to maintain economic ties with Tehran, after US President Donald Trump unilaterally abandoned the nuclear accord in May.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis new package will widen economic and sectoral relations in areas that are of direct benefit to our citizens,\u201d<\/em> said the bloc\u2019s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, emphasizing the EU\u2019s commitment to cooperation with Iran that might help it offset the impact of US sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>Washington is currently busy pressuring allies to fall in behind its unilaterally introduced economic limitations and halt all imports of Iranian oil by November 4.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Like this story? Share it with a friend!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/436799-wrong-time-eu-aid-iran\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington said the EU\u2019s latest Iran development aid package of \u20ac18 million is \u201csending the wrong message\u201d and apparently undermining its efforts to isolate the Islamic republic with unilateral sanctions. \u201cThe European Union\u2019s August 23 announcement of a new $20.7 million payment that will widen economic and sectoral relations between Iran and Europe sends the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":374808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-374807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374807","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=374807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}