{"id":38158,"date":"2013-09-29T07:50:27","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T03:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=38158"},"modified":"2013-09-29T07:50:27","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T03:50:27","slug":"death-to-america-shoes-thrown-at-irans-president-rouhani-as-country-is-split-over-historic-call-with-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=38158","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Death to America!&#8217; Shoes thrown at Iran&#8217;s President Rouhani as country is split over historic call with Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Hassan-Rouhani.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-38156\" alt=\"Hassan Rouhani\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Hassan-Rouhani.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Hassan-Rouhani.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Hassan-Rouhani-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Hassan-Rouhani-459x300.jpg 459w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s President Hassan Rouhani arrived home today to shouts of &#8216;death to America&#8217; from hardline protesters.<\/p>\n<p>While hundreds of Iranians gathered at the airport to cheer his return to the country after a week of UN talks, around 100 others gathered outside to throw eggs and shoes at his car.<\/p>\n<p>The hardline activists also waved a banner and some threw stones, according to Iran&#8217;s news agency.<\/p>\n<p>They appeared to be protesting against Rouhani softening relations with the West, and particularly a 15 minute phone call he shared with Barack Obama yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>They spoke through an interpreter in the first direct contact between a U.S. and Iranian President in more than 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>Rouhani has said he wants to end the stand-off between Iran and America over his country&#8217;s nuclear programme, which Ian claims is for peaceful purposes but the West has long suspected will be used to make atomic bombs.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a UN summit on the issue, Rouhani said he would like the dispute to be resolved in &#8216;months rather than years&#8217; and called for Israel to sign up to a treaty on nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>In return Rouhani has said that he expects all sanctions on his country to be lifted, which have cut oil exports in half, devalued the Iranian currency and crippled the economy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Iran&#8217;s President Hassan Rouhani arrived home today to shouts of &#8216;death to America&#8217; from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":38156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,140,137],"tags":[2424],"class_list":["post-38158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-region","category-world","tag-hassan-rouhani","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38158","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=38158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}