{"id":9306,"date":"2014-06-12T15:28:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T15:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=9306"},"modified":"2014-06-12T15:28:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T15:28:08","slug":"iran-wont-tolerate-violence-in-iraq-rouhani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/iran-wont-tolerate-violence-in-iraq-rouhani\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran won\u2019t tolerate violence in Iraq: Rouhani"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"divLead2\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<p><strong>Iran\u2019s president says the Islamic Republic will not tolerate violence and terror as foreign-backed Takfiri militants wreak havoc in northern Iraq.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cAs the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, we will not tolerate the [acts of] violence and terror and we fight violence and terrorism in the region and in the world,\u201d President Hassan Rouhani said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The Iranian president said Iran\u2019s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) will hold an immediate meeting to review the developments in Iraq as the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) pushes ahead with its offensive in Iraq\u2019s northern cities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWhy is an extremist and terrorist group treating people this way?\u201d President Rouhani asked.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: #5b5b5b;\"><p>\u201cI hope that nobody would see the films [taken] of the savage acts committed by them (ISIL) in Iraq and Syria. Unfortunately, these people claim to be combatants and Muslim,\u201d Rouhani stated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The Takfiri attack on Iraq\u2019s Nineveh Province has forced \u201cover 500,000 people in and around\u201d its capital, Mosul, to flee, according to Geneva-based International Organization for Migration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Reports also indicate that on June 11 the militants seized the city of Tikrit. However, shortly afterwards, Iraqi forces managed to recapture the central city, located roughly half way between Baghdad and Mosul.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Clashes continue between Iraqi soldiers and the Takfiri militants, who have vowed to march toward the capital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the acts carried out by the militants, calling on the international community to support the Iraqi government\u2019s fight against Takfiris.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">According to reports, Takfiri groups are reportedly entering Iraq from neighboring Syria and Saudi Arabia to undermine security in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.com\/detail\/2014\/06\/12\/366645\/iran-wont-tolerate-violence-in-iraq\/\">Press TV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s president says the Islamic Republic will not tolerate violence and terror as foreign-backed Takfiri militants wreak havoc in northern Iraq. \u201cAs the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, we will not tolerate the [acts of] violence and terror and we fight violence and terrorism in the region and in the world,\u201d President Hassan &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[755,1423,50,923,676,905,349,414,210,22,163,66],"class_list":["post-9306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research","tag-hassan-rouhani","tag-iran","tag-iraq-2","tag-iraq-violence","tag-isil","tag-isis","tag-middle-east-2","tag-president","tag-rouhani","tag-takfiri","tag-ticker","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9306","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9308,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9306\/revisions\/9308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}