{"id":24952,"date":"2026-02-15T04:17:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T04:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=24952"},"modified":"2026-02-15T04:17:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T04:17:25","slug":"trumpnetanyahu-agreed-us-should-press-iran-to-cut-oil-sales-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=24952","title":{"rendered":"Trump\/Netanyahu agreed US should press Iran to cut oil sales to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Trump\/Netanyahu agreed US should press Iran to cut oil sales to China<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed at a White House meeting on Wednesday that the US would work to reduce Iran&#8217;s oil exports to China, <em>Axios<\/em> reported, citing two US officials briefed on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We agreed that we will go full force with maximum pressure against Iran, for example, regarding Iranian oil sales to China,&#8221; <em>Axios<\/em> reported on Saturday, quoting a senior US official.<\/p>\n<p>China accounts for more than 80 per cent of Iran&#8217;s oil exports. Any reduction in that trade would mean lower oil revenue for Iran.<\/p>\n<p>US and Iranian diplomats held nuclear talks through Omani mediators last week in an effort to revive diplomacy, after the US president positioned a naval flotilla in the region as the American military prepares for the possibility of sustained, weeks-long operations against Iran. <\/p>\n<p><em>(Reporting by Lisa Baertlein in Los Angeles; Editing by Sergio Non and Diane Craft)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Reuters<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bairdmaritime.com\/shipping\/tankers\/trumpnetanyahu-agreed-us-should-press-iran-to-cut-oil-sales-to-china\">Go to baird maritime<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed at a White House meeting on Wednesday that the US would work to reduce Iran&#8217;s oil exports to China, <em>Axios<\/em> reported, citing two US officials briefed on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We agreed that we will go full force with maximum pressure against Iran, for example, regarding Iranian oil sales to China,&#8221; <em>Axios<\/em> reported on Saturday, quoting a senior US official.<\/p>\n<p>China accounts for more than 80 per cent of Iran&#8217;s oil exports. Any reduction in that trade would mean lower oil revenue for Iran.<\/p>\n<p>US and Iranian diplomats held nuclear talks through Omani mediators last week in an effort to revive diplomacy, after the US president positioned a naval flotilla in the region as the American military prepares for the possibility of sustained, weeks-long operations against Iran. <\/p>\n<p><em>(Reporting by Lisa Baertlein in Los Angeles; Editing by Sergio Non and Diane Craft)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,34],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-24952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baird-maritime","category-tankers","tag-baird-maritime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}