{"id":13457,"date":"2018-09-01T01:29:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T01:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13457"},"modified":"2018-09-01T01:29:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T01:29:38","slug":"uk-minister-to-discuss-irans-destabilizing-activities-in-syria-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13457","title":{"rendered":"UK minister to discuss Iran\u2019s destabilizing activities in Syria, Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1364726\/middle-east\" readability=\"65\">\n<p>\nJEDDAH: Junior Foreign Minister Alistair Burt arrived in Tehran on Friday to discuss the future of Iran\u2019s international nuclear deal, in the first visit to the country by a British minister to Iran since US President Donald Trump withdrew from the 2015 agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\nHis visit comes as the EU tries to keep the deal alive.<\/p>\n<p>\nBurt will also discuss Iran\u2019s \u201cdestabilizing role\u201d in the ongoing conflicts in Syria and Yemen, as well as the plight of dual nationals detained in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn a statement ahead of the visit, Burt said: \u201cDuring my visit \u2026 I will stress that Iran\u2019s ballistic missile program and its destabilizing activities in the Middle East must be addressed. I will also use the opportunity of my visit to push for the resolution we all want to see in the cases of the British dual nationals detained in Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nBritain is seeking the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation. She was arrested in April 2016 at Tehran\u2019s airport as she was heading back to Britain with her daughter, now aged four, after a family visit.<\/p>\n<p>\nBurt will meet Iranian ministers, including his counterpart Abbas Araghchi, and NGOs during his two-day visit.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cAs long as Iran meets its commitments under the deal, we remain committed to it as we believe it is the best way to ensure a safe, secure future for the region,\u201d said Burt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JEDDAH: Junior Foreign Minister Alistair Burt arrived in Tehran on Friday to discuss the future of Iran\u2019s international nuclear deal, in the first visit to the country by a British minister to Iran since US President Donald Trump withdrew from the 2015 agreement. His visit comes as the EU tries to keep the deal alive.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13457","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\/13457","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=13457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}