{"id":11282,"date":"2018-08-12T18:30:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T18:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11282"},"modified":"2018-08-12T18:30:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T18:30:49","slug":"egypt-detains-another-monk-linked-to-abbots-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11282","title":{"rendered":"Egypt detains another monk linked to abbot\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1355171\/middle-east\" readability=\"49\">\n<p>\nBAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi has canceled a visit to Iran, his press office said Sunday, as the premier came under strong Iranian criticism over his stand on renewed US sanctions against Tehran.<br \/>Abadi will still go ahead with a planned visit to Turkey on Tuesday but has scrapped the Iran leg of the trip \u201cbecause of his busy schedule,\u201d his office said.<br \/>An Iraqi official had said Saturday that Abadi would visit both neighboring Turkey and Iran to discuss economic issues.<br \/>According to Iraqi political sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, Iran initially agreed to the visit but changed its mind because it was unhappy about Abadi\u2019s remarks.<br \/>The premier said last Tuesday that Iraq \u2014 which relies on neighboring Iran as a source of cheap imports \u2014 would reluctantly comply with US sanctions against Tehran that took effect the same day.<br \/>\u201cWe don\u2019t support the sanctions because they are a strategic error, but we will comply with them,\u201d said Abadi, whose country is an ally of both Tehran and Washington. \u201cIn general, sanctions are unjust.\u201d<br \/>On Sunday, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei\u2019s representative in Baghdad lashed out at Abadi as the Tehran visit was called off.<br \/>\u201cThese irresponsible remarks have already been condemned by many people. It\u2019s a disloyal attitude toward the honest position of Iran and the blood of the martyrs this country has spilt to defend the land of Iraq\u201d against militants, said Moujtaba Al-Hussein.<br \/>\u201cWe are saddened by this position which shows he has been defeated psychologically in the face of the Americans,\u201d he said.<br \/>The US sanctions were reimposed after President Donald Trump withdrew from a landmark 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers.<br \/>In Tehran, the foreign ministry was more guarded about a possible visit by Abadi.<br \/>A ministry spokesman said he had \u201cso far not received any official news or information whatsoever about this trip,\u201d the semi-official ISNA news agency reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi has canceled a visit to Iran, his press office said Sunday, as the premier came under strong Iranian criticism over his stand on renewed US sanctions against Tehran.Abadi will still go ahead with a planned visit to Turkey on Tuesday but has scrapped the Iran leg of the trip&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}