{"id":1846,"date":"2019-09-25T20:03:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T19:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.020965.de\/?p=1846"},"modified":"2019-09-26T06:50:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T05:50:51","slug":"iran-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.020965.de\/?p=1846","title":{"rendered":"Iran sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a very disturbing experience, today. A lady from The Netherlands tried to send some money to me, on behalf of a dear friend from Iran, who has been part of the Chris de Burgh community for many years, being payment for hosting his website. She also mentioned the word &#8222;Iran&#8220; in the bank transfer reference.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sam.jpg\" alt=\"Sam&#039;s site\" width=\"918\" height=\"351\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.020965.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sam.jpg 918w, https:\/\/www.020965.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sam-300x115.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.020965.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sam-768x294.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.020965.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sam-552x211.jpg 552w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 918px) 100vw, 918px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But then, the payment from The Netherlands to me was stopped by my bank, because of Iran sanctions imposed by who know whom. I think this is absolutely unacceptable. And I am ready to start a major argument with my bank, since this simply will not do.<\/p>\n<p>If I am dissatisfied with someone in Iran, or anywhere else, for that matter, I may choose to stop doing business with them. My bank may decide to stop trading in Iran, on its own behalf.<\/p>\n<p>However, I do not think that my bank has the right to decide on my behalf not to accept a payment from The Netherlands, simply because that payment is connected to the work of an artist in the country of Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a very disturbing experience, today. A lady from The Netherlands tried to send some money to me, on behalf of a dear friend from Iran, who has been part of the Chris de Burgh community for many years, being payment for hosting his website. She also mentioned the word &#8222;Iran&#8220; in the bank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3,17,16,18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paG60H-tM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1846"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1853,"href":"https:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions\/1853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}