{"id":78176,"date":"2020-01-13T11:03:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T11:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=78176"},"modified":"2020-01-13T11:03:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T11:03:11","slug":"uk-denounces-brief-detention-of-envoy-in-tehran-as-violation-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/uk-denounces-brief-detention-of-envoy-in-tehran-as-violation-of-law\/","title":{"rendered":"UK denounces brief detention of envoy in Tehran as violation of law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Britain&#8217;s Foreign Office confirmed on Saturday that the country&#8217;s ambassador in Tehran was briefly detained by Iranian authorities. UK denounced the arrest as a &#8220;flagrant violation of international law&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said in a statement said that the arrest of UK ambassador in Tehran without grounds or explanation is a flagrant violation of international law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He warned Iran that it was &#8220;at a cross-roads moment&#8221;, and had to choose between &#8220;its march towards pariah status&#8221; or &#8220;take steps to de-escalate tensions and engage in a diplomatic path forwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier on Saturday, British envoy Rob Macaire was arrested in Tehran for allegedly &#8220;inciting&#8221; protesters in Tehran on the accidental downing of aUkranian passenger jet, killing 176 people.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Foreign Office confirmed on Saturday that the country&#8217;s ambassador in Tehran was briefly detained by Iranian authorities. UK denounced the arrest as a &#8220;flagrant violation of international law&#8221;. UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said in a statement said that the arrest of UK ambassador in Tehran without grounds or explanation is a flagrant violation [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78178,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78176\/revisions\/78178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}