{"id":211269,"date":"2019-06-17T09:02:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T09:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/211269-iran-news-in-brief-june-14-2019"},"modified":"2020-01-24T17:42:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T17:42:15","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-june-14-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-14-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran news in brief, June 14, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran news in brief, June 14, 2019\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_-cBX329kJl4\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F-cBX329kJl4%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-cBX329kJl4\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT3M57S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2019-06-14T09:34:42Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_-cBX329kJl4\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F-cBX329kJl4%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran news in brief, June 14, 2019<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/-cBX329kJl4\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F-cBX329kJl4%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran news in brief, June 14, 2019\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, June 14, 2019 U.S. Military Releases Video It Says Implicates Iranian Regime in Oil Tanker Attack The U.S. military has released a video it says implicates the Iranian Regime\u2019s Revolutionary Guards in the attack on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. The U.S. Central Command on June 13 said the video shows crews from IRGC boats removing what looks like an unexploded mine from the side of one of the two attacked oil tankers. &quot;At 4:10 p.m. local time, an IRGC Gashti Class patrol boat approached the M\/T Kokuka Courageous and was observed and recorded removing the unexploded limpet mine from the M\/T Kokuka Courageous,&quot; Navy Captain Bill Urban, a Central Command spokesman, said in a statement. Pompeo Blames Iran for Tanker Attack, Trump Expresses Skepticism About Iran Deal U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the U.S. believes that the Iranian regime is responsible for attacks that damaged the two oil tankers near the Persian Gulf. Pompeo said at a news conference Thursday that the attacks on the ships are part of a &quot;campaign&quot; of &quot;escalating tension&quot; by Iran and a threat to international peace and security. Meanwhile U.S. President Donald Trump has responded to this week\u2019s visit by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Iran saying on Twitter that he appreciated the effort but believed that Iran and the United States were not ready for a deal. UK Warns Iran Over &#039;Deeply Unwise&#039; Attacks on Oil Tankers Britain is working on the basis that the Iranian regime is responsible for attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday, and warned Tehran that these actions were \u201cdeeply unwise,\u201d Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said. \u201cThis is deeply worrying and comes at a time of already huge tension. I have been in contact with (Mike) Pompeo and, while we will be making our own assessment soberly and carefully, our starting point is obviously to believe our US allies,\u201d Hunt said. Saudi Arabia Agrees Iran Was Behind Tanker Attacks Saudi Arabia agrees with the United States that the Iranian regime was behind the suspected attacks on the two oil tankers in the Gulf, Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir said on Thursday. Twitter Deletes Accounts Tied to Iran, Seeks to End False Info Campaigns Twitter on Thursday said it removed thousands of accounts linked to coordinated, state-backed activities it believes were from the Iranian government and archived them to its public database launched last year. In the latest purge of information, the company said it believes 4,779 accounts were associated or backed by Iran. Five Prisoners Hanged in Iran The Iranian regime has hanged five prisoners in Karaj, Ardabil and Gorgan. Three inmates were hanged in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj on Wednesday, June 12. Also on Wednesday, the head of the Justice Department of Ardabil, announced that they had executed an inmate in the local prison. 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I have been in contact with (Mike) Pompeo and, while we will be making our own assessment soberly and carefully, our starting point is obviously to believe our US allies,\u201d Hunt said.Saudi Arabia Agrees Iran Was Behind Tanker AttacksSaudi Arabia agrees with the United States that the Iranian regime was behind the suspected attacks on the two oil tankers in the Gulf, Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir said on Thursday.Twitter Deletes Accounts Tied to Iran, Seeks to End False Info CampaignsTwitter on Thursday said it removed thousands of accounts linked to coordinated, state-backed activities it believes were from the Iranian government and archived them to its public database launched last year.In the latest purge of information, the company said it believes 4,779 accounts were associated or backed by Iran.Five Prisoners Hanged in IranThe Iranian regime has hanged five prisoners in Karaj, Ardabil and Gorgan.Three inmates were hanged in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj on Wednesday, June 12.Also on Wednesday, the head of the Justice Department of Ardabil, announced that they had executed an inmate in the local prison.On Sunday, Hashem Amiri, a married father of three children, was hanged in the Prison of Gorgan.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-14-2019\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Iran news in brief, June 14, 2019 - NCRI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, June 14, 2019U.S. Military Releases Video It Says Implicates Iranian Regime in Oil Tanker Attack The U.S. military has released a video it says implicates the Iranian Regime\u2019s Revolutionary Guards in the attack on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman.The U.S. Central Command on June 13 said the video shows crews from IRGC boats removing what looks like an unexploded mine from the side of one of the two attacked oil tankers.&quot;At 4:10 p.m. local time, an IRGC Gashti Class patrol boat approached the M\/T Kokuka Courageous and was observed and recorded removing the unexploded limpet mine from the M\/T Kokuka Courageous,&quot; Navy Captain Bill Urban, a Central Command spokesman, said in a statement.Pompeo Blames Iran for Tanker Attack, Trump Expresses Skepticism About Iran DealU.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the U.S. believes that the Iranian regime is responsible for attacks that damaged the two oil tankers near the Persian Gulf.Pompeo said at a news conference Thursday that the attacks on the ships are part of a &quot;campaign&quot; of &quot;escalating tension&quot; by Iran and a threat to international peace and security.Meanwhile U.S. President Donald Trump has responded to this week\u2019s visit by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Iran saying on Twitter that he appreciated the effort but believed that Iran and the United States were not ready for a deal.UK Warns Iran Over &#039;Deeply Unwise&#039; Attacks on Oil TankersBritain is working on the basis that the Iranian regime is responsible for attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday, and warned Tehran that these actions were \u201cdeeply unwise,\u201d Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said.\u201cThis is deeply worrying and comes at a time of already huge tension. I have been in contact with (Mike) Pompeo and, while we will be making our own assessment soberly and carefully, our starting point is obviously to believe our US allies,\u201d Hunt said.Saudi Arabia Agrees Iran Was Behind Tanker AttacksSaudi Arabia agrees with the United States that the Iranian regime was behind the suspected attacks on the two oil tankers in the Gulf, Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir said on Thursday.Twitter Deletes Accounts Tied to Iran, Seeks to End False Info CampaignsTwitter on Thursday said it removed thousands of accounts linked to coordinated, state-backed activities it believes were from the Iranian government and archived them to its public database launched last year.In the latest purge of information, the company said it believes 4,779 accounts were associated or backed by Iran.Five Prisoners Hanged in IranThe Iranian regime has hanged five prisoners in Karaj, Ardabil and Gorgan.Three inmates were hanged in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj on Wednesday, June 12.Also on Wednesday, the head of the Justice Department of Ardabil, announced that they had executed an inmate in the local prison.On Sunday, Hashem Amiri, a married father of three children, was hanged in the Prison of Gorgan.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-14-2019\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"NCRI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-06-17T09:02:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-01-24T17:42:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ncri-logo.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"402\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"100\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@iran_policy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@iran_policy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":[\"Article\",\"BlogPosting\"],\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-june-14-2019\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-june-14-2019\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Iran news in brief, June 14, 2019\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-06-17T09:02:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-01-24T17:42:15+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-june-14-2019\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":15,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"save\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Multimedia: Iran news in brief\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-june-14-2019\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-june-14-2019\\\/\",\"name\":\"Iran news in brief, June 14, 2019 - 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I have been in contact with (Mike) Pompeo and, while we will be making our own assessment soberly and carefully, our starting point is obviously to believe our US allies,\u201d Hunt said.Saudi Arabia Agrees Iran Was Behind Tanker AttacksSaudi Arabia agrees with the United States that the Iranian regime was behind the suspected attacks on the two oil tankers in the Gulf, Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir said on Thursday.Twitter Deletes Accounts Tied to Iran, Seeks to End False Info CampaignsTwitter on Thursday said it removed thousands of accounts linked to coordinated, state-backed activities it believes were from the Iranian government and archived them to its public database launched last year.In the latest purge of information, the company said it believes 4,779 accounts were associated or backed by Iran.Five Prisoners Hanged in IranThe Iranian regime has hanged five prisoners in Karaj, Ardabil and Gorgan.Three inmates were hanged in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj on Wednesday, June 12.Also on Wednesday, the head of the Justice Department of Ardabil, announced that they had executed an inmate in the local prison.On Sunday, Hashem Amiri, a married father of three children, was hanged in the Prison of Gorgan.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-14-2019\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Iran news in brief, June 14, 2019 - NCRI","og_description":"Iran news in brief, June 14, 2019U.S. Military Releases Video It Says Implicates Iranian Regime in Oil Tanker Attack The U.S. military has released a video it says implicates the Iranian Regime\u2019s Revolutionary Guards in the attack on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman.The U.S. Central Command on June 13 said the video shows crews from IRGC boats removing what looks like an unexploded mine from the side of one of the two attacked oil tankers.\"At 4:10 p.m. local time, an IRGC Gashti Class patrol boat approached the M\/T Kokuka Courageous and was observed and recorded removing the unexploded limpet mine from the M\/T Kokuka Courageous,\" Navy Captain Bill Urban, a Central Command spokesman, said in a statement.Pompeo Blames Iran for Tanker Attack, Trump Expresses Skepticism About Iran DealU.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the U.S. believes that the Iranian regime is responsible for attacks that damaged the two oil tankers near the Persian Gulf.Pompeo said at a news conference Thursday that the attacks on the ships are part of a \"campaign\" of \"escalating tension\" by Iran and a threat to international peace and security.Meanwhile U.S. President Donald Trump has responded to this week\u2019s visit by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Iran saying on Twitter that he appreciated the effort but believed that Iran and the United States were not ready for a deal.UK Warns Iran Over 'Deeply Unwise' Attacks on Oil TankersBritain is working on the basis that the Iranian regime is responsible for attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday, and warned Tehran that these actions were \u201cdeeply unwise,\u201d Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said.\u201cThis is deeply worrying and comes at a time of already huge tension. I have been in contact with (Mike) Pompeo and, while we will be making our own assessment soberly and carefully, our starting point is obviously to believe our US allies,\u201d Hunt said.Saudi Arabia Agrees Iran Was Behind Tanker AttacksSaudi Arabia agrees with the United States that the Iranian regime was behind the suspected attacks on the two oil tankers in the Gulf, Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir said on Thursday.Twitter Deletes Accounts Tied to Iran, Seeks to End False Info CampaignsTwitter on Thursday said it removed thousands of accounts linked to coordinated, state-backed activities it believes were from the Iranian government and archived them to its public database launched last year.In the latest purge of information, the company said it believes 4,779 accounts were associated or backed by Iran.Five Prisoners Hanged in IranThe Iranian regime has hanged five prisoners in Karaj, Ardabil and Gorgan.Three inmates were hanged in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj on Wednesday, June 12.Also on Wednesday, the head of the Justice Department of Ardabil, announced that they had executed an inmate in the local prison.On Sunday, Hashem Amiri, a married father of three children, was hanged in the Prison of Gorgan.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-14-2019\/","og_site_name":"NCRI","article_published_time":"2019-06-17T09:02:14+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-01-24T17:42:15+00:00","og_image":[{"width":402,"height":100,"url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ncri-logo.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@iran_policy","twitter_site":"@iran_policy","twitter_misc":{"Written by":""},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":["Article","BlogPosting"],"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-14-2019\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-14-2019\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"Iran news in brief, June 14, 2019","datePublished":"2019-06-17T09:02:14+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-24T17:42:15+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-14-2019\/"},"wordCount":15,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#organization"},"keywords":["save"],"articleSection":["Multimedia: Iran news in brief"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-14-2019\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-14-2019\/","name":"Iran news in brief, June 14, 2019 - NCRI","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2019-06-17T09:02:14+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-24T17:42:15+00:00","description":"Iran news in brief, June 14, 2019U.S. Military Releases Video It Says Implicates Iranian Regime in Oil Tanker Attack The U.S. military has released a video it says implicates the Iranian Regime\u2019s Revolutionary Guards in the attack on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman.The U.S. Central Command on June 13 said the video shows crews from IRGC boats removing what looks like an unexploded mine from the side of one of the two attacked oil tankers.\"At 4:10 p.m. local time, an IRGC Gashti Class patrol boat approached the M\/T Kokuka Courageous and was observed and recorded removing the unexploded limpet mine from the M\/T Kokuka Courageous,\" Navy Captain Bill Urban, a Central Command spokesman, said in a statement.Pompeo Blames Iran for Tanker Attack, Trump Expresses Skepticism About Iran DealU.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the U.S. believes that the Iranian regime is responsible for attacks that damaged the two oil tankers near the Persian Gulf.Pompeo said at a news conference Thursday that the attacks on the ships are part of a \"campaign\" of \"escalating tension\" by Iran and a threat to international peace and security.Meanwhile U.S. President Donald Trump has responded to this week\u2019s visit by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Iran saying on Twitter that he appreciated the effort but believed that Iran and the United States were not ready for a deal.UK Warns Iran Over 'Deeply Unwise' Attacks on Oil TankersBritain is working on the basis that the Iranian regime is responsible for attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday, and warned Tehran that these actions were \u201cdeeply unwise,\u201d Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said.\u201cThis is deeply worrying and comes at a time of already huge tension. I have been in contact with (Mike) Pompeo and, while we will be making our own assessment soberly and carefully, our starting point is obviously to believe our US allies,\u201d Hunt said.Saudi Arabia Agrees Iran Was Behind Tanker AttacksSaudi Arabia agrees with the United States that the Iranian regime was behind the suspected attacks on the two oil tankers in the Gulf, Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir said on Thursday.Twitter Deletes Accounts Tied to Iran, Seeks to End False Info CampaignsTwitter on Thursday said it removed thousands of accounts linked to coordinated, state-backed activities it believes were from the Iranian government and archived them to its public database launched last year.In the latest purge of information, the company said it believes 4,779 accounts were associated or backed by Iran.Five Prisoners Hanged in IranThe Iranian regime has hanged five prisoners in Karaj, Ardabil and Gorgan.Three inmates were hanged in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj on Wednesday, June 12.Also on Wednesday, the head of the Justice Department of Ardabil, announced that they had executed an inmate in the local prison.On Sunday, Hashem Amiri, a married father of three children, was hanged in the Prison of Gorgan.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-14-2019\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-14-2019\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-14-2019\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Iran news in brief, June 14, 2019"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/","name":"NCRI","description":"Official website of the National Council of Resistance of Iran","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#organization","name":"Official website of the National Council of Resistance of Iran","alternateName":"Official website of the National Council of Resistance of Iran","url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ncri-logo.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ncri-logo.jpg","width":402,"height":100,"caption":"Official website of the National Council of Resistance of Iran"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/iran_policy"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"","url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/author\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}