{"id":41706,"date":"2019-11-25T12:23:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T12:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41706"},"modified":"2019-11-25T12:23:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T12:23:23","slug":"showdown-looms-over-syria-chemical-weapons-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41706","title":{"rendered":"Showdown looms over Syria chemical weapons probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"51\">\n<p>\nDUBAI: A pro-government rally planned in Tehran on Monday will show the world who the \u201creal\u201d Iranians are, Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry said, voicing surprise over foreign statements of support for protesters angered by a decision to hike gasoline prices.<br \/>The protests grew into a wave of anti-government unrest that saw at least 100 banks and dozens of buildings torched in the worst violence at least since Iran put down a \u201cGreen Revolution\u201d in 2009, when dozens were killed over several months.<br \/>Iran has blamed what it called \u201cthugs\u201d that it says are linked to exiles and foreign foes \u2014 the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia \u2014 for stirring up the street unrest.<br \/>After days of state-sponsored marches in dozens of cities to condemn the unrest, Iran is holding a pro-government rally in the capital to be addressed by the commander of the elite Revolutionary Guards, which helped quell the unrest.<br \/>\u201cI recommend they (foreign countries) look at the marches today, to see who the real people in Iran are and what they are saying,\u201d Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said in remarks carried by state television.<br \/>\u201cWe are surprised that the foreign minister of a certain country has stooped so low as to ask for videos of bank-burnings &#8230; be sent to them,\u201d Mousavi said.<br \/>\u201cWe recognize the right to peaceful assembly&#8230;But the situation is different for rioters &#8230; and groups which take direction (from abroad) and are armed.\u201d<br \/>US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asked Iranian protesters on Twitter last week to send the United States any photos or videos of the crackdown of protests. \u201cThe United States will publicize and condemn the persecution of protesters,\u201d he said.<br \/>The French government said on Wednesday it was deeply concerned by reports of many deaths during protests in Iran and called on Tehran to respect its international human rights duties.<br \/>Rights group Amnesty International said last week that security forces shot into crowds of protesters from rooftops and, in one case, from a helicopter.<br \/>Amnesty said at least 115 people were killed in the unrest. Iran has rejected death toll figures as \u201cspeculative\u201d.<br \/>Iranian authorities have said about 1,000 demonstrators have been arrested. The Center for Human Rights in Iran, a New York-based advocacy group, said the numbers was likely closer to 4,000.<br \/>Protests began on Nov. 15 in several towns after the government announced gasoline price hikes of at least 50%. They spread to 100 cities and towns and quickly turned political with protesters demanding top officials step down.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: A pro-government rally planned in Tehran on Monday will show the world who the \u201creal\u201d Iranians are, Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry said, voicing surprise over foreign statements of support for protesters angered by a decision to hike gasoline prices.The protests grew into a wave of anti-government unrest that saw at least 100 banks and dozens&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41706","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\/41706","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=41706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}