{"id":18594,"date":"2018-10-15T19:26:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T19:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18594"},"modified":"2018-10-15T19:26:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T19:26:02","slug":"iran-embassy-in-ankara-evacuated-after-bomb-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18594","title":{"rendered":"Iran embassy in Ankara evacuated after \u2018bomb warning\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1388081\/middle-east\" readability=\"47\">\n<p>\nANKARA: An individual who claimed to have links to Daesh threatened to attack the Iranian embassy in Ankara, Tehran\u2019s envoy in Turkey said on Monday, denying Turkish media reports that he had been evacuated.<br \/>\u201cThe suicide attack against the embassy was only a threat,\u201d Ambassador Mohammad Ebrahim Taherian Fard said. \u201cNothing significant has happened and things are under control.\u201d<br \/>\u201cThe threat was made by someone who introduced himself as linked to Daesh,\u201d Fard said, quoted by state news agency IRNA.<br \/>Turkish media said Fard had been evacuated but the ambassador and Tehran flatly denied the report as a complete fabrication.<br \/>\u201cSuch a claim is a sheer lie, and the personnel at our embassy are present at their workplace in full health and security,\u201d the foreign ministry said in a statement on its website.<br \/>Earlier on Monday, DHA news agency said Iran\u2019s mission in the Turkish capital had been given an intelligence warning about a possible suicide bomb attack.<br \/>The road by the embassy was shut off and police could be seen searching cars in the area, an AFP photographer said earlier on Monday.<br \/>Ambassador Fard also said Turkish police \u201cintensified security measures\u201d around Tehran\u2019s mission in Ankara in response to the threat.<br \/>In 2015 and 2016, Turkey was hit by a series of terror attacks which were blamed on both Kurdish militants and Daesh.<br \/>The last attack blamed on Daesh was in January 2017 when a gunman killed 39 people at an elite Istanbul nightclub during New Year celebrations.<br \/>Since then, Turkish police have conducted regular raids across the country against suspected Daesh militants.<br \/>They have also regularly targeted members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party (PKK), which is blacklisted as a terrorist organization by Ankara and its Western allies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA: An individual who claimed to have links to Daesh threatened to attack the Iranian embassy in Ankara, Tehran\u2019s envoy in Turkey said on Monday, denying Turkish media reports that he had been evacuated.\u201cThe suicide attack against the embassy was only a threat,\u201d Ambassador Mohammad Ebrahim Taherian Fard said. \u201cNothing significant has happened and things&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18594","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\/18594","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=18594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}