{"id":22972,"date":"2018-11-23T16:23:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T16:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22972"},"modified":"2018-11-23T16:23:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T16:23:03","slug":"is-iranian-saffron-sanction-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22972","title":{"rendered":"Is Iranian saffron sanction-proof?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"71\">\n<p>The reimposition of US sanctions on Iranian oil exports is threatening various parts of Iranian society.<\/p>\n<p>But the saffron-exporting sector believes it is virtually sanction-proof and some think the sanctions may have even been good for business.<\/p>\n<p>At a conference of industry experts hosted by the University of Torbat Heydarieh, one saffron trader argued, &#8220;We&#8217;re the main producer and exporter of saffron in the world, there&#8217;s no alternative &#8230; By legal or illegal means, we&#8217;re certain our products will be exported.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Zein Basravi has the story.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reimposition of US sanctions on Iranian oil exports is threatening various parts of Iranian society. But the saffron-exporting sector believes it is virtually sanction-proof and some think the sanctions may have even been good for business. At a conference of industry experts hosted by the University of Torbat Heydarieh, one saffron trader argued, &#8220;We&#8217;re&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22972","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\/22972","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=22972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}