{"id":59697,"date":"2012-11-24T11:53:07","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T09:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=59697"},"modified":"2023-04-05T14:14:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T11:14:25","slug":"turkey-acknowledges-gold-exports-tied-to-iran-gas-purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/11\/24\/turkey-acknowledges-gold-exports-tied-to-iran-gas-purchases\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Acknowledges Gold Exports Tied to Iran Gas Purchases"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Loophole in Western Sanctions Allows Iran to Buy Gold in Turkey With Turkish Payments for Gas Imported From Iran<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-59699\" title=\"1349692617\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1349692617.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1349692617.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1349692617-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1349692617-768x525.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>BY JOE PARKINSON AND EMRE PEKER<\/p>\n<p>ISTANBUL\u2014Turkey on Friday acknowledged that a surge in its gold exports this year is related to payments for imports of Iranian natural gas, shedding light on Ankara&#8217;s role in breaching U.S.-led sanctions against Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>The continuing trade deal offers the most striking example of how Iran is using creative ways to sidestep Western sanctions over its disputed nuclear program, which have largely frozen it out of the global banking system.<\/p>\n<p>The disclosure was made by Turkey&#8217;s Deputy Prime Minister and top economic policy maker Ali Babacan in answers to questions from the parliamentary budget committee.<\/p>\n<p>via Turkey Acknowledges Gold Exports Tied to Iran Gas Purchases &#8211; WSJ.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loophole in Western Sanctions Allows Iran to Buy Gold in Turkey With Turkish Payments for Gas Imported From Iran BY JOE PARKINSON AND EMRE PEKER ISTANBUL\u2014Turkey on Friday acknowledged that a surge in its gold exports this year is related to payments for imports of Iranian natural gas, shedding light on Ankara&#8217;s role in breaching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":59699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[1471],"class_list":["post-59697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran_","tag-gold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59697","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=59697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}