{"id":9024,"date":"2019-02-17T14:46:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T06:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=9024"},"modified":"2019-02-17T14:46:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T06:46:26","slug":"munich-conference-ends-with-focus-on-iran-and-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=9024","title":{"rendered":"Munich conference ends with focus on Iran and Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Munich, Feb 17,\u00a0(NNN- AGENCIES)\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Iran and Middle Eastern conflicts will be top of the agenda at the Munich Security Conference on Sunday, with a speech from Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif keenly anticipated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is expected to respond to Washington&#8217;s attempts to forge a new alliance against his country after the US withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That clash already spilled out into the open again on Saturday, when US Vice President Mike Pence said Iran was seeking the means to achieve &#8220;another Holocaust&#8221; and called on Washington&#8217;s European allies to follow the US by pulling out of the nuclear deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zarif described the Holocaust allegations as &#8220;ridiculous,&#8221; telling Germany&#8217;s Spiegel magazine that not &#8220;even the US vice president&#8221; should be allowed to exploit the Holocaust for their own ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran&#8217;s other sworn enemies will not be represented at the conference on Sunday after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi minister of state Adel al-Jubair cancelled their appearances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The conference is to end with a discussion of the Syrian civil war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Munich, Feb 17,\u00a0(NNN- AGENCIES)\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Iran and Middle Eastern conflicts will be top of the agenda at the Munich Security Conference on Sunday, with a speech from Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif keenly anticipated. He is expected to respond to Washington&#8217;s attempts to forge a new alliance against his country after the US withdrawal from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":9025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[296],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9024"}],"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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}