{"id":3151,"date":"2009-04-21T22:12:19","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T17:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iransuisse.com\/Fa\/?p=3151"},"modified":"2018-11-10T22:13:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T18:43:26","slug":"iran-swiss-presidents-discuss-energy-economic-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iransuisse.com\/Fa\/iran-swiss-presidents-discuss-energy-economic-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran, Swiss presidents discuss energy, economic ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"side main\">\n<div class=\"content_text_in\">\n<div class=\"short\">TEHRAN \u2013 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met his Swiss counterpart Hans-Rudolf Merz in Geneva on Sunday to discuss \u201cquestions related to collaboration in the energy and economic sectors\u201d, the Swiss government said in a statement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In March 2008, Switzerland\u2019s Elektrizitaetsgesellschaft Laufenburg (EGL) signed a 25-year deal with the National Iranian Gas Export Company for the delivery of 5.5 billion cubic meters of gas per year.<br \/>\nThe deal came despite U.S. pressure on European countries to cut their business ties with Tehran as a means to pressure it to give up its right to nuclear enrichment.<br \/>\nSwitzerland has been representing U.S. interests in Iran since 1980, because Washington has no direct diplomatic relations with the Islamic Republic<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"side side_right\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN \u2013 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met his Swiss counterpart Hans-Rudolf Merz in Geneva on Sunday to discuss \u201cquestions related to collaboration in the energy and<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iransuisse.com\/Fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iransuisse.com\/Fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iransuisse.com\/Fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iransuisse.com\/Fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iransuisse.com\/Fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iransuisse.com\/Fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iransuisse.com\/Fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iransuisse.com\/Fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iransuisse.com\/Fa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}