{"id":20977,"date":"2018-11-03T20:22:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20977"},"modified":"2018-11-03T20:22:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:22:27","slug":"who-will-be-worst-hit-by-us-sanctions-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20977","title":{"rendered":"Who will be worst hit by US sanctions on Iran?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"80.6873065015\">\n<p>US president teased his 55 million Twitter followers about his latest action against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/iran.html\">Iran<\/a> in the style of a Hollywood movie poster &#8211; a picture of him with the words: Sanctions are Coming.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2016\/11\/profile-president-donald-trump-161109050153947.html\">Donald Trump<\/a>&#8216;s taunt was not a joke &#8211; and it&#8217;s expected there&#8217;ll be real-life consequences for millions of Iranians.<\/p>\n<p>The strict economic and trade penalties come into effect on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The White House says the aim is to force Iran to abandon what it calls its &#8220;destructive&#8221; behaviour in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/regions\/middleeast.html\">Middle East<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But the move&#8217;s been condemned by Russia, China, and many European allies. International investigators say Tehran is complying with the terms of the 2015 nuclear agreement.<\/p>\n<p>As Trump keeps his promise to punish Iran, could the new tough measures end up hurting the Iranian people the most?<\/p>\n<p>PRESENTER: Richelle Carey<\/p>\n<p>GUESTS:<\/p>\n<p>Francois Nicoullaud &#8211; Former French ambassador to Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Eslami &#8211; Columnist and political researcher.<\/p>\n<p>Drew Liquerman &#8211; Republicans Overseas UK.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president teased his 55 million Twitter followers about his latest action against Iran in the style of a Hollywood movie poster &#8211; a picture of him with the words: Sanctions are Coming. But Donald Trump&#8217;s taunt was not a joke &#8211; and it&#8217;s expected there&#8217;ll be real-life consequences for millions of Iranians. The strict&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20977","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\/20977","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=20977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}