{"id":293852,"date":"2017-02-08T17:44:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T16:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/china-protests-us-sanctions-on-iran\/"},"modified":"2017-02-08T17:44:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T16:44:03","slug":"china-protests-us-sanctions-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/china-protests-us-sanctions-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"China protests US sanctions on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"page\">\n<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>China protests US sanctions on Iran<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Peter Symonds<br \/>\n    <br \/>8 February 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The Chinese government has formally protested the decision by the Trump administration last Friday to impose US sanctions on Iran over its latest missile test. Among the 25 sanctioned individuals and entities were three Chinese citizens and two Chinese companies, which will now be barred from access to the American financial system and dealings with US corporations.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctions follow a menacing statement by US National Security Adviser Michael Flynn last week accusing Iran of \u201cdestabilising behaviour across the Middle East\u201d and \u201cofficially putting Iran on notice.\u201d The penalties against Chinese individuals and companies are another indication that the Trump administration is preparing to confront China as well. Iran has denied that its missile test is in breach of UN resolutions.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing formally complained on Monday that the sanctions will severely affect Chinese businesses. Foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang told a daily press briefing that China, which has in the past supported the US push for UN sanctions against Iran, is opposed to \u201cunilateral sanctions,\u201d saying the move adversely affected other countries.<\/p>\n<p>Lu warned: \u201cThe sanctions will not help in enhancing trust among the different parties involved and will not help in resolving international problems.\u201d The remark suggests that the Chinese government, which has confronted repeated threats by Trump on trade, North Korea and the South China Sea, could be less supportive in the future of US actions in the Middle East and internationally.<\/p>\n<p>China along with Russia, Britain, France and Germany were part of the Obama administration\u2019s agreement in 2015 with Iran to severely restrict its nuclear programs in return for the gradual&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/02\/08\/iran-f08.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 China protests US sanctions on Iran By Peter Symonds 8 February 2017 The Chinese government has formally protested the decision by the Trump administration last Friday to impose US sanctions on Iran over its latest missile test. Among the 25 sanctioned individuals and entities were three Chinese citizens and two Chinese companies, which will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-293852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}