{"id":25374,"date":"2019-05-19T13:32:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T05:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=25374"},"modified":"2019-05-19T13:51:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T05:51:42","slug":"iraqi-president-meets-irans-ambassador-amid-rising-regional-tension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=25374","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi President Meets Iran&#8217;s Ambassador Amid Rising Regional Tension"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 19 (NNN-NINA) &#8211; Iraqi President, Barham Salih, on Saturday met with the Iranian Ambassador to Iraq, Iraj Masjedi, amid rising tension between the United States and Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A statement by the presidency&#8217;s media office, said that, Salih received Masjedi at the presidential office in Baghdad, where the two discussed the &#8220;latest political developments in the region.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said that the two sides stressed the need to &#8220;adopt a positive dialogue, to reduce tensions in the region and establish stability.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting came amid the tense situation in the region, after U.S. President, Donald Trump, decided not to re-issue the sanctions waivers for major importers to continue buying Iran&#8217;s oil, when they expired in early May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States has also increased its military activities in the region recently, citing a threat of Iranian &#8220;attack.&#8221;&#8211; NNN-NINA <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 19 (NNN-NINA) &#8211; Iraqi President, Barham Salih, on Saturday met with the Iranian Ambassador to Iraq, Iraj Masjedi, amid rising tension between the United States and Iran. A statement by the presidency&#8217;s media office, said that, Salih received Masjedi at the presidential office in Baghdad, where the two discussed the &#8220;latest political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,300,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25374"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}