{"id":33318,"date":"2011-05-06T17:21:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T14:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=33318"},"modified":"2014-01-06T01:25:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T23:25:13","slug":"us-warns-turkey-against-trade-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/05\/06\/us-warns-turkey-against-trade-with-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"US warns Turkey against trade with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_33320\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33320\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33320\" title=\"miriam20110505153427983\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/miriam20110505153427983.jpg\" alt=\"US Treasury's Acting Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence David Cohen \" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/miriam20110505153427983.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/miriam20110505153427983-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Treasury&#39;s Acting Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence David Cohen <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Washington is pressuring Turkey to limit its trade transactions with the Islamic Republic of Iran, a senior official in the US Treasury has said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have urged the Turkish government to assist Turkish banks in protecting themselves from Iran&#8217;s attempts to abuse its existing trade and financial relations with Turkey,\u201d US Treasury&#8217;s Acting Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence David Cohen said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen recently visited Turkey to discuss implementing the US-engineered sanctions imposed against Iran and Libya.<\/p>\n<p>The UN Security Council adopted a fourth round of sanctions against Tehran in June 2010, under intense pressure from the US, which claims Iran&#8217;s nuclear program may have potential military applications.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the UN sanctions, the United States imposed fresh unilateral sanctions on Iran&#8217;s financial and energy sectors and persuaded Europe to follow suit. Washington also urged other countries to abandon investment in the Iranian market.<\/p>\n<p>Iran maintains that as a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency and a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, it has a right to peaceful nuclear energy and the technology required for electricity generation and medical research.<\/p>\n<p>The US attempts to mar Tehran-Istanbul ties continue while trade volume between Iran and Turkey has reportedly increased by more than 70 percent, surpassing USD 2.1 billion in the first two months of 2011.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report released by the Turkish Statistical Institute, the volume of trade between the two neighboring states hit USD 963.5 million in February, showing a 43.65 percent increase compared with the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>In mid-February, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad underlined the Islamic Republic&#8217;s firm determination to increase the value of annual trade ties with Turkey to USD 30 billion.<\/p>\n<p>MYA\/MRS\/AKM<\/p>\n<p>via PressTV &#8211; US warns Turkey against trade with Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington is pressuring Turkey to limit its trade transactions with the Islamic Republic of Iran, a senior official in the US Treasury has said. \u201cI have urged the Turkish government to assist Turkish banks in protecting themselves from Iran&#8217;s attempts to abuse its existing trade and financial relations with Turkey,\u201d US Treasury&#8217;s Acting Undersecretary for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":33320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[5455,7312],"class_list":["post-33318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran_","tag-david-cohen","tag-sanctions-against-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}