{"id":21886,"date":"2018-11-10T23:23:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T23:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21886"},"modified":"2018-11-10T23:23:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T23:23:27","slug":"more-sanctions-likely-on-iranian-regime-says-us-national-security-adviser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21886","title":{"rendered":"More sanctions\u00a0likely on Iranian regime, says US national security adviser"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

\nPARIS: US National Security Adviser John Bolton said that more sanctions were possible on Iran just days after a new round of measures touted as the most punishing ever on Tehran entered into force.<\/p>\n

\nBolton said two rounds of unilateral US sanctions introduced by President Donald Trump in August and most recently on Monday had had a \u201cquite significant\u201d effect on the Iranian economy and the country\u2019s actions abroad.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cI think that you\u2019re going to see even more sanctions coming into play over time and much tighter enforcement of the sanctions,\u201d Bolton said in Paris.<\/p>\n

\nAsked what would be the target of the sanctions, he replied: \u201cThere are other things we can do in the terrorism and counterterrorism area.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasts that the sanctions will cause Iran\u2019s economy to contract 1.5 percent this year and 3.6 percent next year \u2014 pain that Trump has boasted about.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cWe\u2019ve seen indications that it has affected their belligerent activity in Iraq, Syria and Yemen. Not enough yet, but it\u2019s beginning to have that effect,\u201d Bolton said.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cWe\u2019ve seen a continuation and exacerbation of political discontent inside Iran. That opposition continues to manifest itself. Economically the Iranian currency is going through the floor, inflation has quadrupled and the country is clearly in recession.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nHe said \u201cthe objective is still to drive Iranians exports of oil to zero\u201d despite waivers given to the biggest buyers of Iranian oil, including China, India and South Korea.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cIt\u2019s with some satisfaction that I noticed today the price of oil is down. We have worked with the Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and other producers to make sure production is up so that historic buyers of Iranian oil are not disadvantaged,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\nBolton spoke as Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that US sanctions have had no effect on Iran\u2019s economy because Washington had already practically reimposed them earlier.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cThe sanctions have had no impact on our economy because America had already used all the weapons at its disposal and there was nothing new to use against us,\u201d Rouhani said in remarks carried live on state television on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cThey just issued a long list of banks, their branches … and airlines and their planes. And this shows that they are merely trying to affect the Iranian nation psychologically,\u201d Rouhani said.<\/p>\n

\nThe US said it would temporarily allow eight importers to keep buying Iranian oil when it reimposed sanctions last Monday aimed at forcing Tehran to curb its nuclear, missile and regional activities.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cIt has now become clear that America cannot cut Iran\u2019s oil exports to zero,\u201d Rouhani added, speaking after a weekly meeting with the heads of the parliament and the judiciary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PARIS: US National Security Adviser John Bolton said that more sanctions were possible on Iran just days after a new round of measures touted as the most punishing ever on Tehran entered into force. Bolton said two rounds of unilateral US sanctions introduced by President Donald Trump in August and most recently on Monday had…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21886","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\/21886","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=21886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}