{"id":382345,"date":"2018-10-25T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-sanctions-iran-to-take-spotlight-off-khashoggi-murder\/"},"modified":"2018-10-25T12:00:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T11:00:58","slug":"presstv-us-sanctions-iran-to-take-spotlight-off-khashoggi-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-sanctions-iran-to-take-spotlight-off-khashoggi-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018US sanctions Iran to take spotlight off Khashoggi murder\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the US\u2019s fresh sanctions against Iran aim to deflect global attention from the murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi and Riyadh\u2019s crimes in Yemen. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a post on his official Twitter account on Wednesday, Zarif hit out at the US for imposing sanctions on Iran over allegedly supporting the Taliban, an anti-Iran militant group with which Washington is seeking negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>The US Treasury Department on Tuesday imposed sanctions against eight individuals, including two allegedly linked to the Quds Force of Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) and accused Iran of providing material and financial support to the militants and supporting terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Zarif said the US sanctions meant to protect Saudi Arabia and divert attention from Khashoggi\u2019s murder and Yemen\u2019s war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo deflect from headlines on Saudi brutality in Istanbul and across Yemen, US Treasury\u2014while&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/24\/577988\/Jamal-Khashoggi-Saudi-Iran-US-sanctions\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the US\u2019s fresh sanctions against Iran aim to deflect global attention from the murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi and Riyadh\u2019s crimes in Yemen. \u00a0 In a post on his official Twitter account on Wednesday, Zarif hit out at the US for imposing sanctions on Iran over [&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-382345","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\/382345","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=382345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}