{"id":30098,"date":"2021-03-24T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T20:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/24\/cook-islands-flagged-tankers-scrubbed-for-alleged-sanctions-busting"},"modified":"2021-03-24T05:00:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T20:00:20","slug":"cook-islands-flagged-tankers-scrubbed-for-alleged-sanctions-busting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30098","title":{"rendered":"Cook Islands-flagged tankers scrubbed for alleged sanctions-busting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two tankers flying the flag of the remote Pacific archipelago are alleged to have been involved in subterfuge shipping of Iranian oil<\/p>\n<p>Two tankers flying the flag of the Cook Islands have been scrubbed from the islands\u2019 shipping registry after allegations the vessels were sanctions-busting, transporting Iranian crude oil while concealing their movements.<\/p>\n<p>US sanctions on Iran\u2019s oil and gas sector have, somewhat improbably, caught up the tiny Cooks archipelago on the other side of the world.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/24\/cook-islands-flagged-tankers-scrubbed-for-alleged-sanctions-busting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two tankers flying the flag of the remote Pacific archipelago are alleged to have been involved in subterfuge shipping of Iranian oilTwo tankers flying the flag of the Cook Islands have been scrubbed from the islands\u2019 shipping registry after allegation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2031,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,666,855,448,449,1945,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-commodities","category-cook-islands","category-iran","category-oil","category-oil-and-gas-companies","category-pacific-islands","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30099,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30098\/revisions\/30099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}