{"id":68788,"date":"2016-03-20T13:43:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T13:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=c8e15010ee577831be21559f4d6709ef"},"modified":"2016-03-20T13:43:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T13:43:21","slug":"news-story-foreign-secretarys-nowruz-message-2016-1395","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=68788","title":{"rendered":"News story: Foreign Secretary&#8217;s Nowruz message 2016 (1395)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I would like to express my best wishes to those celebrating Nowruz in Britain, Iran and around the world. However and wherever you are celebrating the New Year, I wish you health and happiness for the future.<\/p>\n<p>I was delighted to be able to visit Iran in August last year to re-open our embassy, to welcome Foreign Minister Zarif to the UK in February, and most recently to restart our visa services in Tehran and London.<\/p>\n<p>Nowruz is a time for new beginnings, where people come together to celebrate the dawn of a \u2018new day\u2019.  Wherever you are in the world celebrating Nowruz I wish you all a very happy and peaceful New Year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Nowruz Mubarak.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Secretary on twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PHammondMP\">@PHammondMP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Office on twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foreignoffice\">@foreignoffice<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Office on <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/foreignoffice?ref=hl\">facebook<\/a> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/b\/105922144104190309938\/+foreignoffice\/posts\">Google+<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"contact \" id=\"contact_193\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:newsdesk@fco.gov.uk\">newsdesk@fco.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">News Desk <\/span><br \/>\n              020 7008 3100\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Hammond expresses his best wishes to those celebrating Nowruz in Britain, Iran and around the world.<\/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\/68788"}],"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=68788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}