{"id":43904,"date":"2020-09-26T15:22:39","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T15:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=43904"},"modified":"2020-09-26T15:22:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T15:22:39","slug":"iraqs-foreign-minister-makes-first-visit-to-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=43904","title":{"rendered":"Iraq\u2019s foreign minister makes first visit to Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"51\">\n<p>\nTEHRAN: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday authorized the country\u2019s provinces to impose lockdowns wherever necessary to stem a rapid rise in coronavirus cases.<br \/>\u201cWe are forced to intensify regulations and supervisions, starting in the capital Tehran,\u201d Rouhani said in televised remarks.<br \/>He said government-run coronavirus task-force offices around the country would make recommendations on restrictions and whether to impose one-week lockdowns.<br \/>Measures could include \u201crestrictions or shutdowns\u201d of schools, universities, seminaries, mosques, cafeterias, sports and cultural venues, hair salons.<br \/>\u201cIf provincial governors deem it necessary, these centers will have to close for a week,\u201d Rouhani said.<br \/>Iran\u2019s death toll from the coronavirus rose by 172 on Saturday to 25,394, and identified cases by 3,204 to 443,086, health ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari told state TV.<br \/>Iran\u2019s health officials have expressed alarm over a surge in infections, urging the country to respect health protocols to control the spread of the disease.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday authorized the country\u2019s provinces to impose lockdowns wherever necessary to stem a rapid rise in coronavirus cases.\u201cWe are forced to intensify regulations and supervisions, starting in the capital Tehran,\u201d Rouhani said in televised remarks.He said government-run coronavirus task-force offices around the country would make recommendations on restrictions and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43904","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=43904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}