{"id":14,"date":"2003-07-04T11:33:19","date_gmt":"2003-07-04T15:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=14"},"modified":"2003-07-04T11:33:19","modified_gmt":"2003-07-04T15:33:19","slug":"americans-stymie-japan-iran-oil-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Americans stymie Japan-Iran oil deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atimes.com\/atimes\/Middle_East\/EG04Ak01.html\"><i>Excerpt:<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Technically, an IAEA report exonerating the Iranians of all Washington&#8217;s accusations on their nuclear objectives would enable Japan to sign the Azadegan oil deal. Yet, this would still require Tokyo to ignore Washington&#8217;s opposition to any deal for its positive effects on Iran&#8217;s economy, a possibility given the two-year-long talks in the face of American opposition. After all, the Japanese, like the Europeans, pursue their national interests, which are at odds with those of the Americans in a growing number of areas. Notwithstanding, the direct intervention of the Americans in the Japanese-Iranian oil deal signals the escalation of hostility between Iran and the United States with a predictably damaging impact on American relations with some of its closest allies such as Japan. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt: Technically, an IAEA report exonerating the Iranians of all Washington&#8217;s accusations on their nuclear objectives would enable Japan to sign the Azadegan oil deal. Yet, this would still require Tokyo to ignore Washington&#8217;s opposition to any deal for its &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}