{"id":3246,"date":"2020-01-12T22:10:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T22:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.jonotarsomoy.com\/?p=3246"},"modified":"2020-01-12T22:10:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T22:10:29","slug":"iran-arrests-uk-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/2020\/01\/12\/iran-arrests-uk-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran arrests UK ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s Foreign Office confirmed on Saturday that the country\u2019s ambassador in Tehran was briefly detained by Iranian authorities, denouncing the arrest as a \u201cflagrant violation of international law\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Tehran-based Tasnim news agency reported that British envoy Rob Macaire was arrested for several hours in front of Amir Kabir University for inciting anti-government protesters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe arrest of our Ambassador in Tehran without grounds or explanation is a flagrant violation of international law,\u201d Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Iranian government is at a crossroads moment. It can continue its march towards pariah status with all the political and economic isolation that entails, or take steps to de-escalate tensions and engage in a diplomatic path forward,\u201d Raab said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Agencies<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s Foreign Office confirmed on Saturday that the country\u2019s ambassador in Tehran was briefly detained by Iranian authorities, denouncing the arrest as a \u201cflagrant violation of international law\u201d. Earlier, the Tehran-based Tasnim news agency reported that British envoy Rob Macaire was arrested for several hours in front of Amir Kabir University for inciting anti-government protesters. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3248,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions\/3248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}