{"id":17099,"date":"2019-08-10T16:40:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T16:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=17099"},"modified":"2019-08-10T16:40:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T16:40:30","slug":"tehran-friday-prayer-leader-urges-india-not-to-deal-harshly-with-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/tehran-friday-prayer-leader-urges-india-not-to-deal-harshly-with-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"Tehran Friday prayer leader urges India not to deal harshly with Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<div class=\"row subtitle-box\">\n<div class=\"subtitle row\">Tehran\u2019s provisional Friday Prayers leader called on the Indian government to avoid crushing Muslims in the disputed Kashmir region after New Delhi stripped India-administered Kashmir of special constitutional status.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"body row\">RNA \u2013 \u201cThe Indian government should seriously avoid dealing with Muslims harshly because \u200eit is neither in its interest nor the region\u2019s,\u201d Ayatollah Mohammad-Ali Movahedi-Kermani said, \u200eaddressing worshippers in Tehran on Friday.\u200e<\/p>\n<p>His comments came after the Indian government revoked the special status of India-\u200eadministered Kashmir, in a move that risks fueling already heightened tensions with \u200eneighboring Pakistan.\u200e<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s presidential decree revoked Article 370 of India\u2019s constitution that guaranteed \u200especial rights to the Muslim-majority state, including its right to its own constitution and \u200edecision-making process for all matters except defence, communications and foreign affairs.\u200e<\/p>\n<p>In the lead-up to its move, India sent thousands of additional troops to the region, imposing \u200ea curfew on parts of it, shutting down telecommunications and arresting political leaders.\u200e<\/p>\n<p>Both India and Pakistan claim Kashmir in full, but rule it in part. The two neighbors have \u200efought two of their three wars over the disputed territory.\u200e<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran\u2019s provisional Friday Prayers leader called on the Indian government to avoid crushing Muslims in the disputed Kashmir region after New Delhi stripped India-administered Kashmir of special constitutional status. RNA \u2013 \u201cThe Indian government should seriously avoid dealing with Muslims harshly because \u200eit is neither in its interest nor the region\u2019s,\u201d Ayatollah Mohammad-Ali Movahedi-Kermani said, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-scientists-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17101,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17099\/revisions\/17101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}