{"id":39080,"date":"2024-12-21T20:12:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T17:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=39080"},"modified":"2024-12-21T20:12:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T17:12:02","slug":"iran-condemns-the-killing-of-embassy-employee-in-damascus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/21\/iran-condemns-the-killing-of-embassy-employee-in-damascus\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Condemns the Killing of Embassy Employee in Damascus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Esmail Baghaei, condemned the killing of Seyed Davoud Bitraf, a local staff member at Iran\u2019s embassy in Damascus. Baghaei stated, &#8220;Davoud Bitraf was martyred last Sunday morning in a terrorist attack when assailants opened fire on his car in Damascus,&#8221; and strongly condemned &#8220;this criminal act,&#8221; according to Iran&#8217;s Mehr News Agency.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The spokesman added that &#8220;the body of the martyr Bitraf was discovered, identified, and recently transported to Iran,&#8221; emphasizing the &#8220;responsibility of the transitional Syrian government to identify, prosecute, and punish the perpetrators of this crime.&#8221; He also noted that the Foreign Ministry is closely following the case through various diplomatic and international channels.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Previously, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson stated that the reopening of Iran\u2019s embassy in Damascus depends on ensuring the security of the premises and the diplomatic mission members.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Following the ousting of Bashar al-Assad\u2019s regime by Syrian armed factions on the 8th of this month, the Iranian embassy was closed and stormed. Iran has supported Assad&#8217;s regime in its fight against armed groups since 2011.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Esmail Baghaei, condemned the killing of Seyed Davoud Bitraf, a local staff member at Iran\u2019s embassy in Damascus. Baghaei stated, &#8220;Davoud Bitraf was martyred last Sunday morning in a terrorist attack when assailants opened fire on his car in Damascus,&#8221; and strongly condemned &#8220;this criminal act,&#8221; according to Iran&#8217;s Mehr News &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39091,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39080\/revisions\/39091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}