{"id":2000127048,"date":"2026-09-25T08:20:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T06:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/?p=2000127048"},"modified":"2026-09-25T08:20:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T06:20:24","slug":"colombia-severs-diplomatic-ties-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/colombia-severs-diplomatic-ties-with-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia severs diplomatic ties with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The decision was based on Colombia&#8217;s foreign policy principles concerning national and hemispheric security and the fight against transnational crime, taking into account alleged links between the Iranian government and international terrorist groups and other &#8220;narco-terrorist&#8221; organizations that Colombia considers a security threat, the ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;These events have eroded Colombia&#8217;s confidence in the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran,&#8221; the ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The statement stressed that the severing of diplomatic relations does not constitute a break in consular relations, in accordance with the Vienna conventions on diplomatic and consular relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1020\" height=\"648\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/09\/1487847.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2000127049\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Colombia has severed diplomatic ties with Iran<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colombia&#8217;s Foreign Ministry said Thursday that the country formally severed diplomatic relations with Iran effective Sept. 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000127049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[101],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2000127048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-40","tag-internationl","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000127049,"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/09\/1487847.jpg","alt":"","caption":"Colombia has severed diplomatic ties with Iran\n","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":1020,"height":648,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/09\/1487847.jpg","width":1020,"height":648},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/09\/1487847.jpg","width":1020,"height":648},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/09\/1487847.jpg","width":1020,"height":648},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/09\/1487847.jpg","width":1020,"height":648},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/09\/1487847.jpg","width":1020,"height":648}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000127048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000127048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000127048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000127050,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000127048\/revisions\/2000127050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000127049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000127048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000127048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000127048"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2000127048"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2000127048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}