{"id":151566,"date":"2026-05-18T18:47:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151566"},"modified":"2026-05-18T18:47:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:47:03","slug":"bessent-grants-a-30-day-extension-for-russian-oil-in-tankers-as-iran-war-squeezes-supplyunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151566","title":{"rendered":"Bessent grants a 30-day extension for Russian oil in tankers as Iran war squeezes supplyUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Monday the US will give a 30-day extension for countries to import Russian oil that is already in tankers at sea, a move that is meant to reduce the oil supply shortages caused by the Iran war.<br \/>\nThe announcement marks a continued policy reversal by an administration that had previously said the sanctions on Russian oil would resume.<br \/>\nOriginally announced in early March, the temporary waiver on the sanctions was first renewed in April, just two days after&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3354021\/bessent-grants-30-day-extension-russian-oil-tankers-iran-war-squeezes-supply?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Monday the US will give a 30-day extension for countries to import Russian oil&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151566"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}