{"id":384824,"date":"2018-11-13T04:11:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T03:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-iran-knew-about-saudi-assassination-plot-zarif\/"},"modified":"2018-11-13T04:11:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T03:11:51","slug":"presstv-iran-knew-about-saudi-assassination-plot-zarif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-iran-knew-about-saudi-assassination-plot-zarif\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Iran knew about Saudi assassination plot: Zarif"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Iran knew about Saudi Arabia\u2019s plans to assassinate senior Iranian officials, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tells London-based al-Araby al-Jadeed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tehran had credible information on this,&#8221; Zarif said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alaraby.co.uk\/english\/news\/2018\/11\/12\/iran-fm-confirms-riyadh-plot-to-assassinate-senior-iranians\">interview<\/a>, which will be published in full on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>His comments came after a Sunday report by <em>The New York Times<\/em>, revealing a March 2017 meeting in Riyadh to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2018\/11\/11\/579769\/Khashoggi-killing-Saudi-plan-to-assassinate-General-Soleimani\">assassinate Iranian officials<\/a>, namely Iran\u2019s Major General Qassem Soleimani.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting brought together businessmen that also \u201cpitched a $2 billion plan to use private intelligence operatives to sabotage the Iranian economy,\u201d read the Times report released.<\/p>\n<p>As the meeting came at a time that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was consolidating his power in the kingdom, the report concluded that planning for assassinations, like that of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, started \u201csince the beginning of Prince Mohammed\u2019s ascent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zarif&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/11\/12\/579858\/Tehran-had-credible-information-Saudi-plot-to-assassinate-top-officials-Zarif\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran knew about Saudi Arabia\u2019s plans to assassinate senior Iranian officials, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tells London-based al-Araby al-Jadeed. &#8220;Tehran had credible information on this,&#8221; Zarif said in an interview, which will be published in full on Tuesday. His comments came after a Sunday report by The New York Times, revealing a March 2017 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-384824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}