{"id":48777,"date":"2018-10-29T17:10:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T16:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2018\/10\/29\/irans-new-ambassador-gives-the-pope-a-persian-rug\/"},"modified":"2018-10-29T17:10:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T16:10:00","slug":"irans-new-ambassador-gives-the-pope-a-persian-rug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2018\/10\/29\/irans-new-ambassador-gives-the-pope-a-persian-rug\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran's new ambassador gives the pope a Persian rug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran presented his credentials to Pope Francis, although he needed a little help to comply with the protocol.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cPlease present your letters.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Seyed Taha Hashemi is a physician and specialist in Islamic law. He has held various positions in the Iranian government in recent decades.<\/p>\n<p>The diplomat presented Pope Francis with a magnificent rug handmade from wool and silk in the city of Kerman, which is famous for this type of work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He also gave him a book with a compilation of the works of Persian poet Omar Jayam. Pope Francis gave him a copy of his encyclical Laudato si' and the medal of his pontificate.<\/p>\n<p>The Holy See and Iran have maintained diplomatic relations since 1953.&nbsp;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 29, 2018. The Holy See has maintained diplomatic relations with Iran since 1953.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":27394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/FrWJfhVDtOA","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapaambasciatoreiraneng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapaambasciatoreiranint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}