{"id":103528,"date":"2026-09-26T06:19:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T01:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=103528"},"modified":"2026-09-26T06:19:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T01:19:02","slug":"colombias-new-us-backed-government-cuts-ties-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/colombias-new-us-backed-government-cuts-ties-with-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia\u2019s new US-backed government cuts ties with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOGOTA: Colombia says it had cut diplomatic ties with Iran, the latest Washington ally in Latin America to sever links with the US arch-foe.<\/p>\n<p>Colombia\u2019s new right-wing president, Abelardo de la Espriella, has redrawn Colombia\u2019s alliances since taking over from his leftist predecessor Gustavo Petro on August 7 with the full-throated endorsement of US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Before his inauguration, De la Espriella also announced plans to sever ties with authoritarian leftist regimes in Cuba and Nicaragua, though he has yet to do so.<\/p>\n<p>His government said Thursday the decision to cut ties with Iran, which took effect on Sept. 19, was based on \u201chemispheric national security\u201d considerations.<\/p>\n<p>It accused the Iranian government of having ties to \u201cnarco-terrorist groups that threaten the security of the country,\u201d without giving proof of the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>The government further lambasted Tehran for blocking traffic in the Strait of Hormuz and attacking other countries in the Middle East in its war with the United States and Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Bogota added that it would maintain consular relations with Tehran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOGOTA: Colombia says it had cut diplomatic ties with Iran, the latest Washington ally in Latin America to sever links with the US arch-foe. Colombia\u2019s new right-wing president, Abelardo de la Espriella, has redrawn Colombia\u2019s alliances since taking over from his leftist predecessor Gustavo Petro on August 7 with the full-throated endorsement of US President &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":103539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103542,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103528\/revisions\/103542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}