{"id":28944,"date":"2019-01-13T11:23:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T11:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28944"},"modified":"2019-01-13T11:23:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T11:23:04","slug":"iran-protests-to-poland-over-iran-focused-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28944","title":{"rendered":"Iran protests to Poland over Iran-focused summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1434716\/middle-east\" readability=\"43\">\n<p>\nDUBAI: Iran\u2019s foreign ministry summoned a senior Polish diplomat on Sunday to protest Poland\u2019s jointly hosting a global summit with the United States focused on the Middle East, particularly Iran, state news agency IRNA reported.<br \/>US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday the summit \u2014 to be held in Warsaw on Feb. 13-14 \u2014 would focus on stability and security in the Middle East, including on the \u201cimportant element of making sure that Iran is not a destabilising influence.\u201d<br \/>An Iranian foreign ministry official told Poland\u2019s charge d\u2019affaires in Tehran that Iran saw the decision to host the meeting as a \u201chostile act against Iran\u201d and warned that Tehran could reciprocate, IRNA added.<br \/>\u201cPoland\u2019s charge d\u2019affaires provided explanations about the conference and said it was not anti-Iran,\u201d the agency added.<br \/>On Friday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif criticized Poland for hosting the meeting and wrote on Twitter: \u201cPolish Govt can\u2019t wash the shame: while Iran saved Poles in WWII, it now hosts desperate anti-Iran circus.\u201d<br \/>Zarif was referring to Iran hosting more that 100,000 Polish refugees during the Second World War.<br \/>Relations between Tehran and Washington are highly fraught following the decision in May by President Donald Trump to pull the US out of a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and six major powers and to reimpose sanctions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: Iran\u2019s foreign ministry summoned a senior Polish diplomat on Sunday to protest Poland\u2019s jointly hosting a global summit with the United States focused on the Middle East, particularly Iran, state news agency IRNA reported.US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday the summit \u2014 to be held in Warsaw on Feb. 13-14 \u2014&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28944","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\/28944","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=28944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}