{"id":40460,"date":"2019-08-12T21:22:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T21:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40460"},"modified":"2019-08-12T21:22:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T21:22:53","slug":"libya-airport-reopens-after-brief-rupture-in-cease-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40460","title":{"rendered":"Libya airport reopens after brief rupture in cease-fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"76\">\n<p>\nBAGHDAD:\u00a0Iraq rejects any Israeli participation in a naval force to protect shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, at the heart of tensions with Iran, Foreign Minister Mohammed Ali Al-Hakim said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\nTensions have escalated in past months, with drones downed and tankers mysteriously attacked in Gulf and nearby waters.<\/p>\n<p>\nWashington and its Arab allies in the Gulf region have accused the Islamic republic of carrying out the tanker attacks. The US has since sought to assemble an international coalition it says is to guarantee freedom of navigation in the Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>\nIsrael has made no official announcement on the operation, although Israeli media have reported a possible role for the Jewish state. Iraq \u201crejects any participation of forces of the Zionist entity in any military force to secure passage of ships in the Arabian Gulf,\u201d Hakim said on Twitter. \u201cTogether, the Gulf states can secure the passage of ships,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe added that \u201cIraq will work to lower tensions in our region through calm negotiations,\u201d while \u201cthe presence of Western forces in the region would raise tensions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nTehran and Washington have been at loggerheads since President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the US from a nuclear accord between Iran and world powers in May 2018, reimposing biting sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>\nIf the coalition is formed, each country would provide a military escort for its commercial ships through the Gulf with the support of the US military, which would carry out aerial surveillance and command operations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nThe UK has said it will take part, but other European countries have so far kept out, fearing it might harm efforts to reach a negotiated settlement with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\nIran\u2019s Defense Minister Amir Hatami said on Thursday any Israeli involvement could have \u201cdisastrous consequences\u201d for the region and the formation of a US-led flotilla in the Gulf would increase insecurity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD:\u00a0Iraq rejects any Israeli participation in a naval force to protect shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, at the heart of tensions with Iran, Foreign Minister Mohammed Ali Al-Hakim said on Monday. Tensions have escalated in past months, with drones downed and tankers mysteriously attacked in Gulf and nearby waters. Washington and its Arab allies&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40460","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\/40460","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=40460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}