{"id":39653,"date":"2019-06-07T12:22:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T12:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39653"},"modified":"2019-06-07T12:22:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T12:22:44","slug":"un-agency-says-libya-floods-kill-4-displace-more-than-2500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39653","title":{"rendered":"UN agency says Libya floods kill 4, displace more than 2,500"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"47\">\n<p>\nDUBAI: Iran rejected French calls for wider international talks over its nuclear and military ambitions, saying on Friday it would only discuss it existing 2015 atomic pact with world powers, state TV reported.<br \/>French President Emmanuel Macron had said a day earlier that Paris and Washington both wanted to stop Tehran getting nuclear arms and new talks should focus on curbing its ballistic missiles program and on other issues.<br \/>But Iran\u2019s foreign ministry said it would not hold any discussions beyond the 2015 pact which US President Donald Trump abandoned last year as he pressed for tougher restrictions.<br \/>\u201cUnder this circumstances, talking about issues beyond the deal &#8230; will lead to further mistrust among the remaining signatories of the deal,\u201d foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said in a statement.<br \/>The United States pulled out of the 2015 agreement \u2014 under which Tehran agreed to curb its nuclear work in exchange for sanctions relief- saying it did was not permanent and did not do enough to control Iran\u2019s missiles and regional influence.<br \/>France and other European signatories to the deal have said they wanted to save it, but many of their companies have canceled deals with Tehran, under financial pressure from the United States.<br \/>\u201cThe Europeans have so far failed to fulfill their commitments under the deal and &#8230; to protect Iran\u2019s interests after America\u2019s illegal withdrawal,\u201d Mousavi added in his statement, according to state TV.<br \/>Trump said on Thursday that Iran was failing as a nation, under the pressure of his sanctions, and repeated his call for talks with the leadership in Tehran.<br \/>Mousavi dismissed Trump\u2019s comments as \u201crepetitive, groundless and paradoxical\u201d and said they did not merit a response.<br \/>Iran\u2019s top authority Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has dismissed Washington\u2019s call for negotiations.<br \/>However, Iran\u2019s pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani has signaled Iran\u2019s willingness to hold talks if the US showed its respect and returned to the nuclear accord.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: Iran rejected French calls for wider international talks over its nuclear and military ambitions, saying on Friday it would only discuss it existing 2015 atomic pact with world powers, state TV reported.French President Emmanuel Macron had said a day earlier that Paris and Washington both wanted to stop Tehran getting nuclear arms and new&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39653","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\/39653","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=39653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}