{"id":170718,"date":"2021-09-02T00:51:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T19:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=170718"},"modified":"2021-09-02T00:51:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T19:21:28","slug":"eam-jaishankar-speaks-to-iranian-counterpart-discusses-regional-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/09\/02\/eam-jaishankar-speaks-to-iranian-counterpart-discusses-regional-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"EAM Jaishankar speaks to Iranian counterpart, discusses regional issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Delhi, Sep 1 (PTI) External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday spoke to his newly-appointed Iranian counterpart Hossein Amirabdollahian, and discussed the situation in Afghanistan as well as bilateral issues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iran&#8217;s parliament last week approved the appointment of Amirabdollahian as the country&#8217;s foreign minister in the new cabinet of President Ebrahim Raisi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amirabdollahian, who served as Iran&#8217;s deputy foreign minister for Arab and African affairs between 2011 and 2016, succeeded Mohammad Javad Zarif.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;A warm congratulatory call to Iranian FM @Amirabdolahian. Agreed to strengthen our bilateral cooperation. Discussed pressing regional issues. Appreciate Iran&#8217;s facilitation of our repatriation flights from Afghanistan,&#8221; Jaishankar tweeted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is learnt that the current situation in Afghanistan figured in the conversation between the two foreign ministers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last month, Jaishankar represented India at the swearing-in ceremony of newly elected Iranian President Raisi in Tehran, in reflection of the importance India attaches to its ties with Iran.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Raisi, a hardliner and known to be close to Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, won the presidential election in June by a landslide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iran has been playing a key role in the Afghan peace process and hosted intra-Afghan peace talks in Tehran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Sep 1 (PTI) External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday spoke to his newly-appointed Iranian counterpart Hossein Amirabdollahian, and discussed the situation in Afghanistan as well as bilateral issues. Iran&#8217;s parliament last week approved the appointment of Amirabdollahian as the country&#8217;s foreign minister in the new cabinet of President Ebrahim Raisi. Amirabdollahian, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-170718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}