{"id":17287,"date":"2019-09-26T09:58:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T09:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=17287"},"modified":"2019-09-26T09:58:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T09:58:52","slug":"beijing-us-sanctions-on-chinese-firms-over-iran-oil-gross-violation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/beijing-us-sanctions-on-chinese-firms-over-iran-oil-gross-violation\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing: US Sanctions on Chinese Firms over Iran Oil \u2018Gross Violation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing voiced \u201cstrong dissatisfaction\u201d on Thursday after the United States announced sanctions on Chinese companies for buying Iranian oil.<\/p>\n<p>China, which is embroiled in a trade war as well as myriad other disputes with Washington, is believed to be the biggest foreign buyer of Iranian oil.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the sidelines of the United Nations, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday the actions were in response to \u201cviolations\u201d of unilateral US sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>He said sanctions were being placed both on the companies and on their chief executives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina expresses strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition to the sanctions imposed by the United States on Chinese enterprises and individuals,\u201d foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said at a regular press briefing on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the legitimate rights and interests of all parties, the United States wielded a wanton stick of sanctions, which is a gross violation of the basic norms of international relations,\u201d Geng said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing voiced \u201cstrong dissatisfaction\u201d on Thursday after the United States announced sanctions on Chinese companies for buying Iranian oil. China, which is embroiled in a trade war as well as myriad other disputes with Washington, is believed to be the biggest foreign buyer of Iranian oil. Speaking on the sidelines of the United Nations, US &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17287","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\/17287","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=17287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17289,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17287\/revisions\/17289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}