{"id":736,"date":"2021-10-18T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/?p=736"},"modified":"2021-10-18T07:11:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:11:00","slug":"a-british-mp-has-been-assassinated-a-day-after-ibrahim-raisi-was-declared-responsible-for-67-executions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/blog\/world\/736\/","title":{"rendered":"A British MP has been assassinated a day after Ibrahim Raisi was declared responsible for 67 executions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The killing of a member of parliament by a Somali Islamist was considered a terrorist act by British police late Friday, police said. A statement from British police said the initial investigation showed that &#8220;the motive for the attack was linked to Islamic extremism&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative MP David Ames was stabbed to death around noon on Friday and died shortly afterwards. The 69-year-old was meeting with a number of locals in a church when he was attacked.\u00a0\u00a0Local police say they beat a 25-year-old Somali man who was immediately arrested at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>David Ames chaired the &#8220;British Committee for the Liberation of Iran&#8221; and wrote an article on the situation in Iran, always calling for better human rights conditions in the country.\u00a0\u00a0The British Committee for the Liberation of Iran condemned in a statement the attack with a knife on David Ames, a member of the British Parliament and one of the co-chairs of the committee.\u00a0\u00a0According to the statement, a day before his assassination, Ames published an article on the site of Town Hall about the possible role of Ibrahim Raisi in the 67 executions.<\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The killing of a member of parliament by a Somali Islamist was considered a terrorist act by British police late Friday, police said. A statement from British police said the initial investigation showed that &#8220;the motive for the attack was linked to Islamic extremism&#8221;. Conservative MP David Ames was stabbed to death around noon on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","wds_primary_category":119,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}