{"id":31520,"date":"2017-11-17T15:57:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T10:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=31520"},"modified":"2017-11-17T15:57:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T10:57:20","slug":"iran-says-biased-french-policy-stoking-mideast-crises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=31520","title":{"rendered":"Iran says &#8216;biased&#8217; French policy stoking Mideast crises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tehran, Nov 17 (TNS):<\/strong> Iran said on Friday that &#8220;biased&#8221; French policy was stoking crises in the Middle East after Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian accused it of &#8220;hegemonic&#8221; ambitions in the region.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately it seems that France has a biased and partisan approach to the crises in the region and this approach, whether intentionally or not, is even contributing to turning potential crises into real ones,&#8221; foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghassemi said.<\/p>\n<p>Le Drian made his comments in Iran&#8217;s arch rival Saudi Arabia on Thursday during a visit aimed at resolving a crisis sparked by the shock resignation earlier this month of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, a staunch critic of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran, Nov 17 (TNS): Iran said on Friday that &#8220;biased&#8221; French policy was stoking crises in the Middle East after Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian accused it of &#8220;hegemonic&#8221; ambitions in the region. &#8220;Unfortunately it seems that France has a biased and partisan approach to the crises in the region and this approach, whether intentionally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1335,733],"class_list":["post-31520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-tehra","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31522,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31520\/revisions\/31522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}