{"id":376309,"date":"2018-09-06T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-now-in-india-us-pursuing-pressure-campaign-against-iran\/"},"modified":"2018-09-06T12:00:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T11:00:45","slug":"presstv-now-in-india-us-pursuing-pressure-campaign-against-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-now-in-india-us-pursuing-pressure-campaign-against-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Now in India, US pursuing pressure campaign against Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis are on an official visit to India with a top agenda priority of pressuring New Delhi to stop buying Iran\u2019s oil.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A senior US State Department official, who was not named in reports, said on Thursday that American and Indian officials were engaged in \u201cvery detailed conversations\u201d to persuade India to stop oil imports from the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re asking all of our partners, not just India, to reduce to zero oil imports from Iran, and so I\u2019m confident that will be part of our conversation with India,\u201d the official said as Pompeo and Mattis met with their counterparts in the Indian capital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are very detailed conversations taking place between the US and India on just the technical issues related to going to zero and those conversations will continue,\u201d the official added.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<figure class=\"image\" style=\"display:inline-block\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"312\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20180906\/bea67c8c-aebe-486c-bd09-de7e248159be.jpg\" width=\"555\"\/><figcaption>This handout photo, from India\u2019s Ministry of External Affairs, taken on&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/09\/06\/573336\/US-India-Pompeo-Mattis-Iran-oil\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis are on an official visit to India with a top agenda priority of pressuring New Delhi to stop buying Iran\u2019s oil. A senior US State Department official, who was not named in reports, said on Thursday that American and Indian officials were engaged in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":376310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-376309","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\/376309","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=376309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}