{"id":15609,"date":"2011-05-27T13:40:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T19:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15609"},"modified":"2011-05-27T13:40:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T19:40:55","slug":"david-elkins-new-iran-sanctions-could-push-petrol-prices-even-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15609","title":{"rendered":"David Elkins: New Iran Sanctions Could Push Petrol Prices Even Higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by David Elkins, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\">Antiwar.com<\/a><\/em>, 27 May 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>U.S. lawmakers have introduced a new package of unilateral sanctions targeting Iran that would challenge U.S. President Obama\u2019s discretionary authority to enforce such sanctions and would impose comprehensive restrictions on foreign entities that ship, refine or provide any other related services to Iran\u2019s energy sector.<\/p>\n<p>Both versions of the bills in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, which have bipartisan support, would effectively translate into a de-facto international embargo on all of Iran\u2019s oil, petroleum and natural gas exports, according to analysts here. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/elkins\/2011\/05\/26\/new-iran-sanctions-could-push-petrol-prices-even-higher\/\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;New Iran Sanctions Could Push Petrol Prices Even Higher&#8221; by David Elkins<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by David Elkins, Antiwar.com, 27 May 2011 U.S. lawmakers have introduced a new package of unilateral sanctions targeting Iran that would challenge U.S. President Obama\u2019s discretionary authority to enforce such sanctions and would impose comprehensive restrictions on foreign entities that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15609\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-15609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-43L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15609","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=15609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15611,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15609\/revisions\/15611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}