{"id":33416,"date":"2019-02-27T09:22:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T09:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33416"},"modified":"2019-02-27T09:22:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T09:22:42","slug":"irans-rouhani-says-he-has-rejected-resignation-of-fm-zarif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33416","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Rouhani says he has rejected resignation of FM Zarif"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1458766\/middle-east\" readability=\"48\">\n<p>\nTEHRAN: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani rejected Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif&#8217;s resignation on Wednesday, the government&#8217;s official website said.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I believe your resignation is against the country&#8217;s interests and do not approve it,&#8221; Rouhani wrote in a letter to Zarif, the website said.<\/p>\n<p>\nMeanwhile,\u00a0Zarif thanked Iranian officials and the nation on Wednesday for their support after his resignation, saying he has always been committed to serving the country.<br \/>In an Instagram post, Zarif said &#8220;as a modest servant, I have never had any concern but elevating the foreign policy and the status of the foreign ministry.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>[Developing]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani rejected Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif&#8217;s resignation on Wednesday, the government&#8217;s official website said. &#8220;I believe your resignation is against the country&#8217;s interests and do not approve it,&#8221; Rouhani wrote in a letter to Zarif, the website said. Meanwhile,\u00a0Zarif thanked Iranian officials and the nation on Wednesday for their support&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33416","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\/33416","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=33416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}