{"id":33261,"date":"2019-02-26T05:23:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T05:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33261"},"modified":"2019-02-26T05:23:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T05:23:32","slug":"arab-european-leaders-vow-new-era-of-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33261","title":{"rendered":"Arab, European leaders vow \u2018new era\u2019 of cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"62.7744783307\">\n<p>\nWASHINGTON: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is \u201cone of the \u201cfront men for a corrupt religious mafia,\u201d top US diplomat Mike Pompeo said Monday following his surprise resignation.<br \/>\u201cWe note @JZarif\u2019s resignation. We\u2019ll see if it sticks,\u201d Pompeo wrote on Twitter.<br \/>\u201cEither way, he and @HassanRouhani are just front men for a corrupt religious mafia,\u201d Pompeo wrote, referring to the country\u2019s president.<br \/>\u201cWe know @khamenei_ir makes all final decisions. Our policy is unchanged \u2014 the regime must behave like a normal country and respect its people,\u201d he said of Iran\u2019s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"6.80952380952\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We note <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JZarif?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JZarif<\/a>\u2019s resignation. We\u2019ll see if it sticks. Either way, he and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HassanRouhani?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HassanRouhani<\/a> are just front men for a corrupt religious mafia. We know <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/khamenei_ir?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@khamenei_ir<\/a> makes all final decisions. Our policy is unchanged\u2014the regime must behave like a normal country and respect its people.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecPompeo\/status\/1100183711528689665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2019<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nZarif, 59, announced his resignation on Instagram, but it can only take effect once Rouhani accepts it.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nHe has served as Rouhani\u2019s foreign minister since August 2013 and has been under constant pressure and criticism by hard-liners who opposed his policy of detente with the West.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nHis standing within Iran\u2019s political establishment took a hit when the US withdrew last year from a deal aimed at curbing Tehran\u2019s nuclear program, and the deal\u2019s achievements became less and less clear as Iran\u2019s economy nosedived.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nZarif was blamed by ultra-conservatives for negotiating a bad deal that had not gained anything meaningful for Iran in exchange for all the concessions it had made in its nuclear program.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe faceoff between the minister and his critics only intensified as time passed, with Zarif saying his main worry throughout the nuclear talks had been from pressure inside Iran.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is \u201cone of the \u201cfront men for a corrupt religious mafia,\u201d top US diplomat Mike Pompeo said Monday following his surprise resignation.\u201cWe note @JZarif\u2019s resignation. We\u2019ll see if it sticks,\u201d Pompeo wrote on Twitter.\u201cEither way, he and @HassanRouhani are just front men for a corrupt religious mafia,\u201d Pompeo&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33261","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\/33261","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=33261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}