{"id":21033,"date":"2018-11-04T06:25:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T06:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21033"},"modified":"2018-11-04T06:25:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T06:25:10","slug":"deadline-midnight-iran-on-the-brink-of-international-isolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21033","title":{"rendered":"Deadline midnight: Iran on the brink of international isolation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1398811\/middle-east\" readability=\"98\">\n<p>\nJEDDAH: When the clocks strike midnight on the US east coast on Sunday, Iran will become the world\u2019s economic pariah state.<\/p>\n<p>\nUS President Donald Trump will reintroduce tough sanctions on Iran\u2019s vital oil sales and banking sectors to try to force Tehran into negotiations to scrap its nuclear and ballistic missile programs and end its regional meddling.<\/p>\n<p>\nMost international sanctions were lifted in 2016 in a deal Iran signed with world powers the year before to curb its uranium enrichment program, widely seen as a disguised effort to develop a nuclear bomb.<\/p>\n<p>\nBut Trump denounced the deal as flawed in Iran\u2019s favor, and withdrew in May. His decision was welcomed throughout the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>\nIran\u2019s \u201caggressive policies\u201d were \u201clargely responsible\u201d for the reimposition of US sanctions, the UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Anwar Gargash, said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn Iran, the sanctions were greeted with boastful defiance. \u201cThe world opposes every decision made by Trump,\u201d Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said. \u201cAmerica\u2019s goal has been to re-establish the domination it had before 1979 but it has failed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nGen. Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force, which runs the foreign operations of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, responded to a Game of Thrones-inspired tweet by Trump on Friday that warned: \u201cSanctions are Coming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI will stand against you,\u201d Soleimani said on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>\nIran has been trying for six months with the EU to create a financial mechanism to avoid the sanctions. Diplomats said the new EU mechanism to pay for Iranian exports should be legally in place by Nov. 4, but not operational until next year. In addition, no country has volunteered to host the entity, which is delaying the process.<\/p>\n<p>\nA senior French diplomat said on Saturday there was no way any trade with the mechanism could be conducted before the end of 2018, and no other countries, including China, would be part of it.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe US has given eight countries \u2014 including India, Japan and possibly China \u2014waivers to continue importing Iranian oil to avoid upsetting the global market.<\/p>\n<p>\nTurkey said on Saturday it had received initial indications from Washington that it would be granted a waiver, but is awaiting clarification on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe sanctions are \u201caimed at depriving the Iranian regime of the revenues it uses to spread death and destruction around the world,\u201d US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cOur ultimate aim is to compel Iran to permanently abandon its well-documented outlaw activities and behave as a normal country.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JEDDAH: When the clocks strike midnight on the US east coast on Sunday, Iran will become the world\u2019s economic pariah state. US President Donald Trump will reintroduce tough sanctions on Iran\u2019s vital oil sales and banking sectors to try to force Tehran into negotiations to scrap its nuclear and ballistic missile programs and end its&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21033","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\/21033","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=21033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}