{"id":66607,"date":"2016-01-19T19:07:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T19:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=f8e9d6a733d4deeec171ba5a89b32f0b"},"modified":"2016-01-19T19:07:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T19:07:09","slug":"press-release-pm-call-with-president-rouhani-of-iran-19-january-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=66607","title":{"rendered":"Press release: PM call with President Rouhani of Iran: 19 January 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A Downing Street spokesperson said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Prime Minister called President Rouhani of Iran earlier today to congratulate him on \u2018implementation day\u2019 in the nuclear deal. The Prime Minister said this was a very good day for international relations.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister and President agreed both sides needed to live up to their obligations under the deal, and that each was fully committed to doing so.<\/p>\n<p>They agreed the deal provided an opportunity for further economic co-operation, including more UK trade missions visiting Iran in the coming months, and also an opportunity for closer diplomatic relations, including through the opening of a dialogue on regional issues such as the situation in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister raised concerns over 3 dual UK-Iran nationals held in Iranian prisons, pressing for swift progress in their cases. Acknowledging this was a humanitarian issue, President Rouhani undertook to look carefully at the cases.<\/p>\n<p>They also spoke about the 4 February <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/topical-events\/supporting-syria-conference-2016\">Syria pledging conference<\/a>, with the Prime Minister noting he would be pleased to welcome an Iranian representative to London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The Prime Minister and President ended the call with an agreement that they hoped to meet in person again this year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister David Cameron spoke with President Rouhani of Iran to congratulate him on &#8216;implementation day&#8217; in the nuclear deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}