{"id":158041,"date":"2020-04-13T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=158041"},"modified":"2020-12-02T10:15:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T10:15:57","slug":"u-s-to-block-irans-request-to-imf-for-5-billion-loan-to-fight-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/04\/u-s-to-block-irans-request-to-imf-for-5-billion-loan-to-fight-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. to Block Iran\u2019s Request to IMF for $5 Billion Loan to Fight Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>7 Apr 2020 &#8211; <\/em>The U.S. plans to block Iran\u2019s requested $5 billion emergency loan from the International Monetary Fund for funding Tehran says it needs to fight its coronavirus crisis. Trump administration officials say Tehran has billion-dollar accounts still at its disposal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_158042\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/iran-usa.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158042\" class=\"wp-image-158042\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/iran-usa-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/iran-usa-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/iran-usa-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/iran-usa-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/iran-usa-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/iran-usa.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-158042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Economic Times<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/u-s-to-block-irans-request-to-imf-for-5-billion-loan-to-fight-coronavirus-11586301732\" >TO CONTINUE READING Go to Original &#8211; wsj.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 Apr 2020 &#8211; The U.S. plans to block Iran\u2019s requested $5 billion emergency loan from the International Monetary Fund for funding Tehran says it needs to fight its coronavirus crisis. Trump administration officials say Tehran has billion-dollar accounts still at its disposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":158042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,65,66,52,146,2236],"tags":[1829,1868,840,1126,1495,487,1289,1050,742,1864,1102,923,70],"class_list":["post-158041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-rights","category-anglo-america","category-middle-east-north-africa","category-health","category-economics","category-covid19-coronavirus","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-cruelty","tag-hegemony","tag-human-needs","tag-human-rights","tag-imf","tag-imperialism","tag-iran","tag-pandemic","tag-public-health","tag-sanctions","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}