{"id":39665,"date":"2019-06-08T12:22:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T12:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39665"},"modified":"2019-06-08T12:22:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T12:22:44","slug":"german-fm-in-iraq-to-address-regional-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39665","title":{"rendered":"German FM in Iraq to address regional tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"41\">\n<p>\nTEHRAN: Iran said Saturday that new US sanctions on its petrochemical industry show the hollowness of President Donald Trump\u2019s claims to be open to fresh negotiations with Tehran.<br \/>\u201cOnly one week was needed for the US president\u2019s claim that he was ready to negotiate with Iran to be proven hollow,\u201d foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said.<br \/>His statement came after the US Treasury announced new sanctions on Friday against Iran\u2019s largest and most profitable petrochemicals group PGPIC.<br \/>Trump said Thursday he would be willing to reopen talks as long as Iran agreed to give up nuclear weapons. But Tehran ruled out talks until the United States is ready to \u201creturn to normal.\u201d<br \/>Mousavi called the new sanctions another instance of \u201ceconomic terrorism\u201d and a continuation of US \u201cenmity\u201d against Iran.<br \/>\u201cAmerica\u2019s maximum pressure policy is a failed policy tried numerous times before by the country\u2019s previous presidents. This a wrong path and the US government can be sure that it will not achieve any of the goals set for this policy,\u201d Mousavi added.<br \/>Washington began reimposing unilateral sanctions on Iran after Trump abandoned a landmark 2015 nuclear deal in May last year.<br \/>It reimposed a first set in August followed by a second in November.<br \/>On April 8, it designated Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards a \u201cforeign terrorist organization,\u201d paving the way for sanctions against their sources of funding.<br \/>Announcing the sanctions against PGPIC on Friday, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said they were intended as a \u201cwarning that we will continue to target holding groups and companies in the petrochemical sector and elsewhere that provide financial lifelines to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp.\u201d<br \/>The PGPIC group holds 40 percent of Iran\u2019s petrochemical production capacity and is responsible for 50 percent of the its petrochemical exports, Treasury said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: Iran said Saturday that new US sanctions on its petrochemical industry show the hollowness of President Donald Trump\u2019s claims to be open to fresh negotiations with Tehran.\u201cOnly one week was needed for the US president\u2019s claim that he was ready to negotiate with Iran to be proven hollow,\u201d foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said.His&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39665","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\/39665","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=39665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}