{"id":13147,"date":"2018-08-29T10:36:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T10:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13147"},"modified":"2018-08-29T10:36:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T10:36:27","slug":"at-least-11-killed-in-suicide-car-bomb-attack-in-iraqs-anbar-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13147","title":{"rendered":"At least 11 killed in suicide car bomb attack in Iraq\u2019s Anbar province"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1363561\/middle-east\" readability=\"46\">\n<p>\nTEHRAN: Iran\u2019s intelligence minister said on Tuesday that \u201cdozens of spies\u201d had been arrested as part of a crackdown on espionage and dual nationals.<br \/>\u201cFinancially and through other means, our enemies try to get information on our country,\u201d Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi said in an interview on state television.<br \/>\u201cThey act by spying and infiltration. Fortunately the anti-espionage section is one of the strongest sections of this ministry.\u201d<br \/>He did not provide details on the \u201cdozens of spies,\u201d or over what period they were arrested.<br \/>He said there was also a concerted effort to root out dual nationals working in official positions.<br \/>\u201cIf you know anyone, tell us about them,\u201d he said.<br \/>Alavi spoke of the threat from the extremists of the Daesh group, which sees Shiite Iran as one of its main enemies in the region.<br \/>He said 230 \u201cterrorist cells\u201d had been intercepted over the past year.<br \/>\u201cWe foiled plots on places such as universities and the metro but we published little information about this,\u201d Alavi said.<br \/>Daesh carried out a multi-pronged attack on Iran\u2019s parliament and the shrine of revolutionary leader Ruhollah Khomeini in June 2017 that killed 17 people.<br \/>Alavi also covered the crackdown on corruption and those manipulating Iran\u2019s chaotic currency rates, which have been a major focus of discontent in recent months.<br \/>\u201cIf we want to have a dynamic economy, we must fight economic corruption. In the intelligence ministry, we have opened 130 files and more than 180 suspects have been arrested,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: Iran\u2019s intelligence minister said on Tuesday that \u201cdozens of spies\u201d had been arrested as part of a crackdown on espionage and dual nationals.\u201cFinancially and through other means, our enemies try to get information on our country,\u201d Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi said in an interview on state television.\u201cThey act by spying and infiltration. Fortunately the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13147","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\/13147","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=13147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}