{"id":21714,"date":"2018-11-09T05:22:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T05:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21714"},"modified":"2018-11-09T05:22:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T05:22:56","slug":"us-says-irans-central-bank-to-be-cut-off-from-global-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21714","title":{"rendered":"US says Iran&#8217;s Central Bank to be cut off from global system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Washington (CNN)<\/cite>Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday that the financial messaging service that moves money around the global banking system will be cutting off Iran&#8217;s Central Bank. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;I understand that SWIFT will be discontinuing service to the Central Bank of Iran and designated Iranian financial institutions,&#8221; Mnuchin said in a tweet. &#8220;SWIFT is making the right decision to protect the integrity of the international financial system.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The decision by SWIFT means Iran&#8217;s Central Bank will be cut off from the international banking system and will cause significant economic pain, observers say. The move comes as the US tries to squeeze Iran with a slew of sanctions and economic measures that administration officials say are meant to make the regime change its behavior. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington (CNN)Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday that the financial messaging service that moves money around the global banking system will be cutting off Iran&#8217;s Central Bank. &#8220;I understand that SWIFT will be discontinuing service to the Central Bank of Iran and designated Iranian financial institutions,&#8221; Mnuchin said in a tweet. &#8220;SWIFT is making the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21714","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=21714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}