{"id":11456,"date":"2018-08-14T05:29:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T05:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11456"},"modified":"2018-08-14T05:29:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T05:29:25","slug":"20000-30000-daesh-fighters-left-in-iraq-syria-un-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11456","title":{"rendered":"20,000-30,000 Daesh fighters left in Iraq, Syria: UN report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1355876\/middle-east\" readability=\"80\">\n<p>\nLONDON: Iran\u2019s supreme leader on Monday accused President Hassan Rouhani\u2019s government of mismanagement, after a string of angry public protests over the dire state of the economy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nAyatollah Ali Khamenei\u2019s statement was an apparent attempt to deflect public anger over the plunging worth of the rial \u2014 the currency has lost about half of its value since April \u2014 and wider economic woes due to tough new US sanctions on Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cMore than the sanctions, economic mismanagement is putting pressure on ordinary Iranians &#8230; I do not call it betrayal but a huge mistake in management,\u201d Khamenei said.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe leader\u2019s speech adds to the growing pressure on Iran\u2019s beleaguered government. Aside from the economic concerns, footage of protests indicates a more fundamental dissatisfaction with the regime, with chants of slogans such as \u201cdeath to the dictator\u201d and demands for an end to Iran\u2019s costly regional interventions in Lebanon, Syria and Yemen while Iranians suffer economic pain.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Iranian leader also ruled out any talks with the US, following last week\u2019s reimposition of sanctions after President Donald Trump pulled out of the 2015 deal aimed at curbing Iran\u2019s nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p>\nThousands of Iranians have protested in recent weeks against sharp rises in the prices of some food items, a lack of jobs and state corruption.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe rial has lost about half of its value since April in anticipation of the renewed US sanctions, driven mainly by heavy demand for dollars among ordinary Iranians trying to protect their savings.<\/p>\n<p>\nMeanwhile, Iran on Monday unveiled a next generation short-range ballistic missile. State broadcaster IRIB said the new Fateh Mobin missile had \u201csuccessfully passed its tests\u201d and could strike targets on land and sea. Previous versions of the missile had a range of about 200 to 300 kilometers.<\/p>\n<p>\nTheodore Karasik, a security analyst and senior adviser to Gulf State Analytics in Washington, said Iran was developing a \u201crobust\u201d defense industry despite the country\u2019s \u201csevere\u201d economic problems.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe missile is launched from a mobile launcher that provides for denial and deception tactics to hide such launchers from overhead surveillance \u2026 much like the Houthi militias are doing in Yemen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Iran\u2019s supreme leader on Monday accused President Hassan Rouhani\u2019s government of mismanagement, after a string of angry public protests over the dire state of the economy.\u00a0 Ayatollah Ali Khamenei\u2019s statement was an apparent attempt to deflect public anger over the plunging worth of the rial \u2014 the currency has lost about half of its&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11456","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\/11456","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=11456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}