{"id":5109,"date":"2014-09-03T14:50:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T07:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5109"},"modified":"2014-09-03T14:51:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T07:51:34","slug":"sudan-shuts-down-iranian-cultural-centre-expels-diplomat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-shuts-down-iranian-cultural-centre-expels-diplomat\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan shuts down Iranian cultural centre, expels diplomat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Khartoum &#8211; Sudanese authorities on Monday ordered the closure of the Iranian Cultural Centre in the capital Khartoum and other states, Sudan Tribune has learned.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian cultural attach\u00e9 and the staff at the center were also asked to leave the country within 72 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The government has not issued any official explanation for the abrupt move but the foreign ministry today summoned the Iranian charge d\u2019affaires and informed him of the decision.<\/p>\n<p>Some press reports have suggested that the Sudanese government\u2019s decision was motivated by warnings made by religious circles as well as the media about the spread of Shiite ideology among Sudanese youngsters after the intensification of activities by the office of the Iranian cultural attach\u00e9 in Khartoum&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sudan News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sudantribune.com\/spip.php?article52254\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khartoum &#8211; Sudanese authorities on Monday ordered the closure of the Iranian Cultural Centre in the capital Khartoum and other states, Sudan Tribune has learned. The Iranian cultural attach\u00e9 and the staff at the center were also asked to leave the country within 72 hours. The government has not issued any official explanation for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,3883,3881,1616,257,4694,3882,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-5109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-iranian-cultural-attache","tag-iranian-cultural-centre","tag-khartoum","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-shiite-ideology","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}