{"id":34623,"date":"2019-03-07T23:23:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T23:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34623"},"modified":"2019-03-07T23:23:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T23:23:58","slug":"houthis-have-killed-the-stockholm-agreement-yemeni-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34623","title":{"rendered":"Houthis have \u2018killed the Stockholm Agreement\u2019: Yemeni official"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"51\">\n<p>\nTEHRAN: Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday appointed ultra-conservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi, a one-time presidential hopeful, as head of the judiciary, the leader\u2019s website said.<br \/>Former judge Raisi, who currently heads the holy shrine of Imam Reza, was the leading rival to President Hassan Rouhani at Iran\u2019s 2017 election and has close ties to the supreme leader.<br \/>Khamenei said in a statement that he appointed Raisi to bring about a \u201ctransformation (in the judiciary) in line with (its) needs, advancements and challenges\u201d on the 40th year of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.<br \/>\u201cFor carrying out this crucial act, I have chosen you who have a long track record in different levels of the judiciary and are in touch with its nuances,\u201d he said in the statement.<br \/>He called on Raisi to be \u201cwith the people, the revolution and against corruption\u201d in his new role.<br \/>Raisi is a mainstay of the conservative establishment, having served as attorney general, supervisor of state broadcaster IRIB and prosecutor in the Special Court for Clerics.<br \/>He bears the title of Hojjat Al-Islam, which is a rank under Ayatollah in the Shiite cleric hierarchy.<br \/>Raisi became deputy prosecutor at the Revolutionary Court of Tehran during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war.<br \/>Human rights organizations, opposition members and dissidents have accused the tribunal of overseeing the execution of political prisoners without due legal process during his tenure.<br \/>He was chosen by Khamenei in 2016 to head Iran\u2019s Imam Reza Shrine and lead its huge business conglomerate, Astan Qods Razavi, with interests in everything from IT and banking to construction and agriculture.<br \/>During his 2017 campaign, Raisi took a tough line on Rouhani\u2019s \u201cweak efforts\u201d in negotiating the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers that brought the Islamic republic sanctions relief in exchange for limiting its nuclear program.<br \/>US President Donald Trump last year withdrew Washington from the pact and reimposed sanctions on Tehran.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday appointed ultra-conservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi, a one-time presidential hopeful, as head of the judiciary, the leader\u2019s website said.Former judge Raisi, who currently heads the holy shrine of Imam Reza, was the leading rival to President Hassan Rouhani at Iran\u2019s 2017 election and has close ties to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34623","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=34623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}