{"id":14288,"date":"2018-07-14T00:16:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T00:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=14288"},"modified":"2018-07-14T00:16:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T00:16:42","slug":"velayati-if-iran-cant-export-oil-no-one-in-middle-east-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/velayati-if-iran-cant-export-oil-no-one-in-middle-east-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Velayati: If Iran can\u2019t Export Oil no-one in Middle East will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Iran on Friday threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz, a vital artery for oil shipments from the Middle East. The warning comes in response to the US, which is trying to cut off Iranian crude exports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From Moscow, Supreme leader&#8217;s senior adviser for international affairs, Ali Akbar Velayati said his country will retaliate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most transparent, complete and prompt response was given by Mr [Hassan] Rouhani, the Iranian president, in his last trip to Europe. The response was clear: if Iran cannot export oil through the Persian Gulf, no-one will do this,\u201d Velayati said, speaking at the Valdai discussion club in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEither everyone will export, or no-one,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Velayati announced that his country coordinates its military presence in Syria with Moscow and Damascus.<\/p>\n<p>Velayati said Iran and Russia&#8217;s presence in Syria will continue to protect the country against terrorist groups and America&#8217;s aggression.<\/p>\n<p>They &#8220;will immediately leave if Iraqi and\u00a0 Syrian\u00a0 governments want it, not because of Israel and America&#8217;s pressure,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The process of developing relations between Iran and Russia is not one-sided and therefore, the irrelevant, meaningless and interventionist claims made by Netanyahu do not affect Iran-Russia relations,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran on Friday threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz, a vital artery for oil shipments from the Middle East. The warning comes in response to the US, which is trying to cut off Iranian crude exports. From Moscow, Supreme leader&#8217;s senior adviser for international affairs, Ali Akbar Velayati said his country will retaliate. \u201cThe &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14291,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14288\/revisions\/14291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}