{"id":39588,"date":"2019-06-02T12:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T12:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39588"},"modified":"2019-06-02T12:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T12:22:28","slug":"regional-conflict-with-iran-inches-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39588","title":{"rendered":"Regional conflict with Iran inches closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (CNN)<\/cite>King Salman of Saudi Arabia has pulled off in Mecca what many had thought unlikely &#8212; getting 20 or so disparate Arab nations to unite in a common position <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/05\/29\/politics\/john-bolton-iran-uae-oil-tankers-attack\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">against Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">And while this achievement came without bellicose threats or new red lines, it is an important milepost on a road that may yet lead to regional conflict.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In middle-of-night, back-to-back summits at Islam&#8217;s holiest of sites, the aging but still-attentive Saudi monarch got a double endorsement of his claims that Iran is<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/05\/26\/middleeast\/trump-middle-east-iran-analysis-trump-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"> destabilizing the Middle East<\/a> and a backing of his call for &#8220;the international community to shoulder its responsibility.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (CNN)King Salman of Saudi Arabia has pulled off in Mecca what many had thought unlikely &#8212; getting 20 or so disparate Arab nations to unite in a common position against Iran.And while this achievement came without bellicose threats or new red lines, it is an important milepost on a road that may&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39588","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=39588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}