{"id":39524,"date":"2019-05-27T14:24:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T14:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39524"},"modified":"2019-05-27T14:24:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T14:24:24","slug":"several-bystanders-killed-in-a-road-crash-in-kuwait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39524","title":{"rendered":"Several bystanders killed in a road crash in Kuwait"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"53\">\n<p>\nBAGHDAD: Iraq offered to mediate in the crisis between its two key allies, the United States and Iran, amid escalating Middle East tensions and as Tehran\u2019s nuclear deal with world powers steadily unravels.<br \/>Iraqi foreign minister, Mohammed Al-Hakim, made the offer Sunday during a joint news conference in Baghdad with visiting Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif.<br \/>\u201cWe are trying to help and to be mediators,\u201d said Al-Hakim, adding that Baghdad \u201cwill work to reach a satisfactory solution\u201d while stressing that Iraq stands against unilateral steps taken by Washington.<br \/>In recent weeks, tensions between Washington and Tehran soared over America deploying an aircraft carrier and B-52 bombers to the Arabian Gulf over a still-unexplained threat it perceives from Tehran.<br \/>The crisis takes root in President Donald Trump\u2019s withdrawal last year of the US from the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers that capped Iran\u2019s uranium enrichment activities in return to lifting sanctions. Washington subsequently re-imposed sanctions on Iran, sending its economy into freefall.<br \/>Trump has argued that the deal failed to sufficiently curb Iran\u2019s ability to develop nuclear weapons or halt its support for militias throughout the Middle East that the US says destabilize the region, as well as address the issue of Tehran\u2019s missiles, which can reach both US regional bases and Israel.<br \/>Zarif, who was been on a whirlwind diplomatic offensive to preserve the rest of the accord, insisted that Iran \u201cdid not violate the nuclear deal\u201d and urged European nations to exert efforts to preserve the deal following the US pullout.<br \/>Speaking about the rising tensions with the US, Zarif said Iran will be able to \u201cface the war, whether it is economic or military through steadfastness and its forces.\u201d He also urged for a non-aggression agreement between Iran and Arab countries in the Gulf.<br \/>The mediation offer by Al-Hakim, Iraq\u2019s foreign minister, echoed one made Saturday by Mohamad Al-Halbousi, the Iraqi parliament speaker. Al-Hakim also expressed concern for Iran\u2019s spiraling economy.<br \/>\u201cThe sanctions against sisterly Iran are ineffective and we stand by its side,\u201d Al-Hakim said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD: Iraq offered to mediate in the crisis between its two key allies, the United States and Iran, amid escalating Middle East tensions and as Tehran\u2019s nuclear deal with world powers steadily unravels.Iraqi foreign minister, Mohammed Al-Hakim, made the offer Sunday during a joint news conference in Baghdad with visiting Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif.\u201cWe&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39524","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\/39524","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=39524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}