{"id":11193,"date":"2012-07-26T06:36:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T13:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=11193"},"modified":"2012-07-26T06:36:12","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T13:36:12","slug":"iran-steps-up-in-bid-to-help-re-stablize-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=11193","title":{"rendered":"Iran steps-up in bid to help re-stablize Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Iran ready to share &#8220;capabilities&#8221; with Assad<\/strong><br \/>\n26 July, 2012c- Al Akhbar<\/p>\n<p>A high-ranking Iranian official says his country is ready to share &#8220;experience and capabilities&#8221; with the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>In a report published late on Wednesday by official news agency IRNA, Iran&#8217;s vice president in charge of international affairs, Ali Saeedlou, described the two countries as powerful nations able to influence regional and global stability.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tehran is ready to give its experience and capabilities to its friend and brother nation of Syria,&#8221; he said, after meeting with Syria&#8217;s deputy prime minister, Omar Ibrahim Ghalawanji.<\/p>\n<p>IRNA said Ghalawanji described Syria as facing serious challenges as a result of &#8220;cruel sanctions&#8221; imposed by the US, European Union, and Arab countries on Damascus over its handling of a 17-month uprising.  <a href=\"http:\/\/english.al-akhbar.com\/content\/iran-ready-share-capabilities-assad\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;source<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D11193&amp;text=Iran+steps-up+in+bid+to+help+re-stablize+Syria&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran ready to share &#8220;capabilities&#8221; with Assad 26 July, 2012c- Al Akhbar A high-ranking Iranian official says his country is ready to share &#8220;experience and capabilities&#8221; with the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria. In a report published late on Wednesday by official news agency IRNA, Iran&#8217;s vice president in charge of international affairs, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=11193#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[3258],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11194,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11193\/revisions\/11194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}