{"id":27635,"date":"2013-08-01T07:21:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T03:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=27635"},"modified":"2013-08-01T07:21:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T03:21:45","slug":"uk-open-to-better-relations-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=27635","title":{"rendered":"UK &#8216;Open&#8217; to Better Relations With Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/William-Hague.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-27633\" alt=\"William Hague\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/William-Hague-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/William-Hague-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/William-Hague-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/William-Hague-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>Foreign Secretary William Hague says Britain is open to better relations with Iran on a &#8220;step-by-step&#8221; basis and he is willing to meet with Tehran&#8217;s foreign minister.<\/p>\n<p>The Foreign Office says Hague stressed the need for &#8220;urgent progress&#8221; to resolve the West&#8217;s concerns about Iran&#8217;s nuclear program in a phone call with Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi.<\/p>\n<p>It said Thursday that Hague &#8220;made clear that the U.K. was open to improvements in the bilateral relationship with Iran, on a step-by-step and reciprocal basis&#8221; and is willing to meet in New York in September during the United Nations General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>The call comes after Hasan Rouhani won Iran&#8217;s June 14 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Rouhani has pledged to follow a &#8220;path of moderation,&#8221; reviving hopes for easing tensions with the West.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Secretary William Hague says Britain is open to better relations with Iran on a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[1976],"class_list":["post-27635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","tag-william-hague","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}