{"id":16310,"date":"2018-09-25T20:23:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T20:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16310"},"modified":"2018-09-25T20:23:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T20:23:16","slug":"saudi-arabia-rejects-iranian-allegations-over-military-parade-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16310","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia rejects Iranian allegations over military parade attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1377771\/middle-east\" readability=\"66\">\n<p>\nJEDDAH: Saudi Arabia on Tuesday strongly rejected Iranian accusations that the Kingdom backed the gunmen who killed 25 people at a military parade on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe Kingdom completely rejects the deplorable false accusations by Iranian officials regarding the Kingdom\u2019s support for the incidents that occurred in Iran last Saturday,\u201d a foreign ministry official said according to the Saudi Press Agency. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nIranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that the attackers were paid by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, and pledged that Iran would \u201cseverely punish\u201d those behind the assault.<\/p>\n<p>\nOn Saturday, gunmen fired on a viewing stand in Ahvaz where officials had gathered to watch an annual parade marking the start of Iran&#8217;s 1980-88 war with Iraq, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>\nAhvaz National Resistance, an Iranian ethnic Arab opposition movement which seeks a separate state in Khuzestan province, and Daesh both said they had carried out the attack.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe foreign ministry official said the Kingdom was used to being on the end of \u201cfalse allegations\u201d from a regime \u201cthat has no other option but to lie and place the blame on other countries to cover its shortcomings and failures to fulfill the aspirations of its people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nThe official said Saudi Arabia has a policy of non-interference in the domestic affairs of other countries.<\/p>\n<p>\nIran, however, interferes in its neighbors, and is the leading sponsor of terrorism in the region and the world, the official said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia on Tuesday strongly rejected Iranian accusations that the Kingdom backed the gunmen who killed 25 people at a military parade on Saturday. \u201cThe Kingdom completely rejects the deplorable false accusations by Iranian officials regarding the Kingdom\u2019s support for the incidents that occurred in Iran last Saturday,\u201d a foreign ministry official said according&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16310","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\/16310","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=16310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}