{"id":14495,"date":"2018-09-09T21:24:56","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T21:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14495"},"modified":"2018-09-09T21:24:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T21:24:56","slug":"egypt-set-to-release-lebanese-tourist-jailed-over-facebook-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14495","title":{"rendered":"Egypt set to release Lebanese tourist jailed over Facebook post"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1369341\/middle-east\" readability=\"67\">\n<p>\nJEDDAH: The US Navy has vowed to ensure the free flow of shipping in the Arabian Gulf and the Red Sea after Iranian threats to disrupt the waterways.<\/p>\n<p>\nVice Admiral\u00a0Scott Stearney, commander of the US 5th Fleet based in Bahrain, said Iran\u2019s activities across the region are \u201cpromoting instability\u201d that is \u201caffecting the region significantly\u201d through its backing of Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels, Bloomberg reported.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe US and our partners stand ready to ensure the freedom of navigation and free flow of commerce wherever international law allows,\u201d he said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe commander made the comments as he announced a series of exercises this month with regional and global allies as part of the US 5th Fleet Theater Counter Mine and Maritime Security Exercise. One of the exercises will take place in Djibouti, near the Bab Al-Mandeb Strait which marks the entrance to the Red Sea.\u00a0 The waters in the Strait have been threatened by the Houthi militia in Yemen, which controls part of the Red Sea coast. The Iran-backed group have carried out several attacks targeting international shipping.<\/p>\n<p>\nIran has also threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz at the entrance to the Arabian Gulf if it is stopped from exporting its own oil.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe US is set to impose a second wave of sanctions in November that will target the Iranian energy sector, including the sale of crude to international customers.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe sanctions are being reimposed after\u00a0 Donald Trump withdrew the US from the nuclear deal between Iran and international powers earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe deal sought to curb Iran\u2019s atomic program in exchange for an easing of the sanctions that had crippled the country\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>\nTrump criticized the deal for doing little to stop Iran\u2019s interventionist foreign policy in the Middle East and its ballistic missile program.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JEDDAH: The US Navy has vowed to ensure the free flow of shipping in the Arabian Gulf and the Red Sea after Iranian threats to disrupt the waterways. Vice Admiral\u00a0Scott Stearney, commander of the US 5th Fleet based in Bahrain, said Iran\u2019s activities across the region are \u201cpromoting instability\u201d that is \u201caffecting the region significantly\u201d&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14495","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\/14495","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=14495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}