{"id":11154,"date":"2018-08-11T15:24:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T15:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11154"},"modified":"2018-08-11T15:24:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T15:24:45","slug":"iran-persian-rug-industry-takes-a-hit-after-us-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11154","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Persian rug industry takes a hit after US sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"70\">\n<p>Last year, Tehran sold $126m worth of Persian rugs to the American market, but the new US sanctions on Iran include the hand-woven carpets.<\/p>\n<p>But the beautiful rugs are more than just a commodity; they are recognised around the world as a form of art and are part of Iran&#8217;s cultural identity.<\/p>\n<p>Weavers say the sanctions are not just an attempt to block an important revenue stream, but also an attack on Iranian culture.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Zein Basravi reports from Karaj, Iran.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Tehran sold $126m worth of Persian rugs to the American market, but the new US sanctions on Iran include the hand-woven carpets. But the beautiful rugs are more than just a commodity; they are recognised around the world as a form of art and are part of Iran&#8217;s cultural identity. Weavers say the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}