{"id":39882,"date":"2019-06-26T07:22:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T07:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39882"},"modified":"2019-06-26T07:22:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T07:22:40","slug":"iran-never-seeks-war-with-us-rouhani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39882","title":{"rendered":"Iran \u2018never seeks war\u2019 with US: Rouhani"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1516336\/middle-east\" readability=\"68\">\n<p>\nTEHRAN: President Hassan Rouhani said Iran \u201cnever seeks war\u201d with the US, state media reported Wednesday amid a spike in tensions between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cIran has no interest to increase tension in the region and it never seeks war with any country, including (the) US,\u201d the president said, quoted by state news agency IRNA.<\/p>\n<p>\nRouhani was speaking by phone to his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, as Tehran and Washington engaged in an escalating war of words following Iran shooting down a US drone last week.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWe have always been committed to regional peace and stability and will make efforts in this respect,\u201d the Iranian president told Macron.<\/p>\n<p>\nUS President Donald Trump said he pulled back from retaliatory strikes on Iran at the last minute, rejecting Tehran\u2019s claim that the aircraft was in its airspace.<\/p>\n<p>\nBut pressure mounted this week with Trump announcing sanctions on Iran\u2019s supreme leader and top officials.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe new measures are the latest against Tehran since Trump pulled out of a landmark nuclear accord between Iran and world powers.<\/p>\n<p>\nRouhani blamed the United States for regional tensions Wednesday and said if Washington had stuck to the deal \u201cwe would have witnessed positive developments in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nIran announced in May it would suspend two of its pledges under the 2015 deal, giving the agreement\u2019s remaining supporters two months to help it circumvent US sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>\nOn Tuesday Tehran\u2019s top security official said Iran would \u201cforcefully\u201d reduce further commitments from July 7.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: President Hassan Rouhani said Iran \u201cnever seeks war\u201d with the US, state media reported Wednesday amid a spike in tensions between the two countries. \u201cIran has no interest to increase tension in the region and it never seeks war with any country, including (the) US,\u201d the president said, quoted by state news agency IRNA.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39882","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\/39882","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=39882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}