{"id":379837,"date":"2018-10-06T04:31:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T03:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-considering-waivers-on-iran-oil-sanctions-official\/"},"modified":"2018-10-06T04:31:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T03:31:17","slug":"presstv-us-considering-waivers-on-iran-oil-sanctions-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-considering-waivers-on-iran-oil-sanctions-official\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US considering waivers on Iran oil sanctions: Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The administration of President Donald Trump is contemplating waivers on sanctions it plans to re-impose next month for countries that are cutting their oil imports from Iran, a US government official says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump pulled the US out of a 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran &#8211; the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) &#8211; and re-imposed the first wave of sanctions on August 6 which include a universal ban on Iran\u2019s access to the US dollar, as well as prohibitions against the country\u2019s trade in gold and other precious metals, among other restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>The second wave of sanctions that would hit on November 4 would aim to bring Iran\u2019s oil exports to zero as claimed by US officials.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, a government official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the administration was \u201cin the midst of an internal process\u201d of considering exceptions called SRE waivers, or significant reduction exemptions.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after Secretary of State&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/06\/576179\/US-Donald-Trump-Iran-oil-sanctions-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The administration of President Donald Trump is contemplating waivers on sanctions it plans to re-impose next month for countries that are cutting their oil imports from Iran, a US government official says. Trump pulled the US out of a 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran &#8211; the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) &#8211; and re-imposed [&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-379837","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\/379837","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=379837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}