{"id":40179,"date":"2019-07-20T18:22:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T18:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40179"},"modified":"2019-07-20T18:22:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T18:22:12","slug":"uk-vows-serious-consequences-if-iran-doesnt-release-british-flagged-tanker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40179","title":{"rendered":"UK vows &#8216;serious consequences&#8217; if Iran doesn&#8217;t release British-flagged tanker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Britain reiterated warnings Saturday that it would take &#8220;robust&#8221; action if Iran did not release a UK-flagged oil tanker it seized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/07\/19\/middleeast\/british-tanker-seized-iran-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">in the Strait of Hormuz<\/a>, the latest confrontation in a tense standoff unfolding in the important shipping route.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The vessel captured by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Friday is now at the center of a widening crisis between Iran and Western powers, as Tehran fights to free itself from the crippling effects of US economic sanctions and reset nuclear talks.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">But there could be serious consequences for the Islamic Republic&#8217;s aggression toward the UK &#8212; one of three European powers that have sought to save the 2015 Iran nuclear deal even after the United States dropped out.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Britain reiterated warnings Saturday that it would take &#8220;robust&#8221; action if Iran did not release a UK-flagged oil tanker it seized in the Strait of Hormuz, the latest confrontation in a tense standoff unfolding in the important shipping route.The vessel captured by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Friday is now at the center&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40179","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\/40179","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=40179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}