{"id":6717,"date":"2019-09-05T06:57:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T04:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=6717"},"modified":"2019-09-05T06:57:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T04:57:52","slug":"i-am-writing-with-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=6717","title":{"rendered":"I am writing with good news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-49589075\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The US state department has confirmed it offered millions of dollars to the captain of an Iranian oil tanker which is at the centre of a diplomatic row.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Hook, head of the department&#8217;s Iran Action Group, emailed the captain of the Adrian Darya 1 about sailing it somewhere the US could seize it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Reports of the cash offer first appeared in the Financial Times on Wednesday and have been confirmed by the state department.<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;We have conducted extensive outreach to several ship captains as well as shipping companies,&#8220; a spokeswoman told AFP news agency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p>According to the Financial Times, Mr Hook sent an email to the Indian captain of the Adrian Darya 1, Akhilesh Kumar, before it imposed sanctions on the ship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;I am writing with good news,&#8220; the email read. The Trump administration was willing to pay the captain several million dollars to take the ship somewhere it could be seized by US authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The emails reportedly carried a state department phone number to make sure the captain &#8211; who took over the ship after it was impounded &#8211; did not think they were fake.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: The US state department has confirmed it offered millions of dollars to the captain of an Iranian oil tanker which is at the centre of a diplomatic row. Brian Hook, head of the department&#8217;s Iran Action Group, emailed the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=6717\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}