{"id":1100,"date":"2019-08-09T05:52:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T04:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2019-08-09T05:52:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T04:52:18","slug":"u-s-sanctions-turn-irans-oil-industry-into-spy-vs-spy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/2019\/08\/09\/u-s-sanctions-turn-irans-oil-industry-into-spy-vs-spy\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Sanctions Turn Iran\u2019s Oil Industry Into Spy vs. Spy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Since President Trump imposed sanctions on Iranian oil sales last year,  information on those sales has become a prized geopolitical weapon \u2014  coveted by Western intelligence agencies and top secret for Iran. And  the business of selling Iranian oil, once a safe and lucrative  enterprise for the well connected, has been transformed into a  high-stakes global game of espionage and counterespionage. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/08\/08\/world\/middleeast\/iran-oil-sanctions-spying.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"New York Times (opens in a new tab)\">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since President Trump imposed sanctions on Iranian oil sales last year, information on those sales has become a prized geopolitical weapon \u2014 coveted by Western intelligence agencies and top secret for Iran. And the business of selling Iranian oil, once a safe and lucrative enterprise for the well connected, has been transformed into a high-stakes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1101,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/1101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}