{"id":11386,"date":"2018-08-13T16:25:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T16:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11386"},"modified":"2018-08-13T16:25:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T16:25:57","slug":"irans-problems-internal-not-just-sanctions-khamenei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11386","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s problems \u2018internal, not just sanctions\u2019: Khamenei"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1355556\/middle-east\" readability=\"52\">\n<p>\nSHEBAA, Lebanon: Dozens of Syrian refugees left Lebanon by bus on Monday in the latest of a wave of returns to their war-torn country, Lebanese authorities said.<br \/>An AFP photographer in the southern town of Shebaa saw women and children wait to board buses, while men loaded belongings on the back of a large pick-up truck.<br \/>Lebanon\u2019s General Security agency \u201csecured the voluntary return of 137 displaced Syrians from the areas of Shebaa and central Bekaa through the Masnaa border crossing toward Syria,\u201d it said it a statement.<br \/>Lebanon hosts around 1.5 million Syrians who fled the civil war across the border, many of them in the Bekaa Valley in the east of the country.<br \/>Lebanese state news agency NNA said \u201cseveral refugees returned to Syria with their own private vehicles\u201d through Masnaa, without giving a figure.<br \/>Syrian state news agency SANA said the returnees had begun arriving in Syria.<br \/>It earlier said preparations had been made to \u201creceive hundreds of displaced returning from Lebanon to their homes in the Damascus countryside.\u201d<br \/>Since April, more than 2,000 Syrians have headed home from Lebanon in such returns coordinated by the authorities in Beirut and Damascus, according to an AFP tally of official figures.<br \/>Human rights groups have warned that Syrians returning to their homeland should do so voluntarily and with full knowledge of the risks.<br \/>According to the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, around 13,000 Syrians went home from Lebanon during the first six months of this year.<br \/>More than 350,000 people have been killed and millions displaced since Syria\u2019s war started with the brutal repression of anti-government protests in 2011.<br \/>But President Bashar Assad has called for displaced Syrians to return since his regime ousted rebels and jihadists from large parts of the country following a massive military intervention by regime ally Russia.<br \/>Last month, Russia presented the United States with plans for the coordinated return of refugees to Syria.<br \/>The proposal includes the establishment of working groups in both Lebanon and Jordan, involving US and Russian officials.<br \/>Earlier this month, Syrian state media said the government was to set up a committee to coordinate repatriating millions of its nationals.<br \/>Last week, Lebanon\u2019s General Security agency announced it had opened 17 centers across the country to receive applications for Syrians who want to travel back home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHEBAA, Lebanon: Dozens of Syrian refugees left Lebanon by bus on Monday in the latest of a wave of returns to their war-torn country, Lebanese authorities said.An AFP photographer in the southern town of Shebaa saw women and children wait to board buses, while men loaded belongings on the back of a large pick-up truck.Lebanon\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11386","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\/11386","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=11386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}