{"id":1737,"date":"2012-01-01T12:13:14","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T17:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/W3\/?p=1737"},"modified":"2012-01-01T12:13:14","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T17:13:14","slug":"iran-president-ahmadinejad-condemns-us-banking-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/iran-president-ahmadinejad-condemns-us-banking-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran President Ahmadinejad condemns US banking sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/57646000\/jpg\/_57646094_013578870-1.jpg\" alt=\"Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (December 2011 photo)\" width=\"304\" height=\"171\" \/><\/div>\n<div>Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the central bank Iran&#8217;s backbone in dealing with enemies<\/div>\n<p id=\"story_continues_1\">Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has hit back at the US, after Washington introduced new sanctions against Iran&#8217;s central bank.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ahmadinejad said the bank was strong enough to defeat &#8220;enemy plans&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctions &#8211; which cut off from the US financial system foreign firms that do business with the central bank &#8211; are part of a defence bill signed by President Barack Obama on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>They will take hold after a warning period of up to six months.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irna.ir\/ENNewsShow.aspx?NID=30743969\">statement quoted by the state-run Irna news agency<\/a>, Mr Ahmadinejad said the central bank was &#8220;the backbone&#8221; of the country in facing outside pressure should have the strength and confidence &#8220;to thwart enemy plans&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The new US sanctions come at a times of heightened tension over the Iranian nuclear programme.<\/p>\n<p>Western powers say Tehran is seeking to acquire a nuclear weapons capability, but Iran insists the programme is purely for energy and medical purposes.<\/p>\n<p>There have been concerns that the sanctions against the Iranian central bank could force up the price of oil.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, which was passed by wide majorities in both houses of Congress, gives the president the power to grant a six-month grace period to give oil markets time to factor them in.<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the central bank Iran&#8217;s backbone in dealing with enemies Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has hit back at the US, after Washington introduced new sanctions against Iran&#8217;s central &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/iran-president-ahmadinejad-condemns-us-banking-sanctions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}