{"id":69601,"date":"2026-03-20T20:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T01:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/us-lifts-sanctions-on-iranian-oil-at-sea-in-bid-to-ease-supply-pressures\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T20:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T01:58:12","slug":"us-lifts-sanctions-on-iranian-oil-at-sea-in-bid-to-ease-supply-pressures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/us-lifts-sanctions-on-iranian-oil-at-sea-in-bid-to-ease-supply-pressures\/","title":{"rendered":"US lifts sanctions on Iranian oil at sea in bid to ease supply pressures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Treasury secretary Scott Bessent says move will bring 140m barrels to market but insists Tehran will not benefit<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has <a href=\"https:\/\/ofac.treasury.gov\/media\/935376\/download?inline\">issued<\/a> a 30-day sanctions waiver for the purchase of Iranian oil at sea to ease energy supply pressures since the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran, US treasury secretary Scott Bessent said.<\/p>\n<p>It is the third time the US has temporarily waived sanctions in about two weeks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/20\/us-sanctions-iranian-oil\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treasury secretary Scott Bessent says move will bring 140m barrels to market but insists Tehran will not benefit The Trump administration has issued a 30-day sanctions waiver for the purchase of Iranian oil at sea to ease energy supply pressures since the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran, US treasury secretary Scott Bessent said. &#8230; <a title=\"US lifts sanctions on Iranian oil at sea in bid to ease supply pressures\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/us-lifts-sanctions-on-iranian-oil-at-sea-in-bid-to-ease-supply-pressures\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US lifts sanctions on Iranian oil at sea in bid to ease supply pressures\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}