{"id":378630,"date":"2018-09-26T07:17:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T06:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-eu-rift-deepens-over-iran-sanctions\/"},"modified":"2018-09-26T07:17:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T06:17:09","slug":"presstv-us-eu-rift-deepens-over-iran-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-eu-rift-deepens-over-iran-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US-EU rift deepens over Iran sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>Tensions have escalated between the US and European Union (EU) countries over their plan to preserve business with Iran and avoid renewed American sanctions.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">US officials criticized European countries on Tuesday after they announced they would not back down on diplomacy with Tehran and promised to facilitate payments related to Iran\u2019s exports as part of efforts to salvage the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) after the US\u2019 withdrawal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Addressing an anti-Iran gathering on the sidelines of annual UN meetings, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he was &#8220;disturbed and indeed deeply disappointed&#8221; by the EU announcement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">&#8220;This is one of the most counterproductive measures imaginable for regional and global peace and security,&#8221; Pompeo said in a speech that was interrupted several times by protesters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">US National Security Adviser John Bolton also mocked Brussels for its lack of detail on the planned mechanism, saying, &#8220;The European&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/09\/26\/575231\/US-EU-Iran-American-sanctions-JCPOA-Mike-Pompeo-John-Bolton-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tensions have escalated between the US and European Union (EU) countries over their plan to preserve business with Iran and avoid renewed American sanctions. US officials criticized European countries on Tuesday after they announced they would not back down on diplomacy with Tehran and promised to facilitate payments related to Iran\u2019s exports as part of [&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-378630","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\/378630","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=378630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}