{"id":25946,"date":"2025-06-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/25946\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T12:18:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:18:28","slug":"oman-steps-up-diplomacy-to-contain-regional-escalation-and-protect-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/25946\/","title":{"rendered":"Oman steps up diplomacy to contain regional escalation and protect citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/ministry\/about-us\/key-figures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi<\/a> continued his discussions with counterparts in brotherly and friendly countries to address the regional tensions triggered by Israeli pre-emptive strikes on Iran and the subsequent Iranian response, amid ongoing escalation since Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He underscored the urgent need to end this tragic war that threatens regional security, calling for intensified diplomatic pressure to revive the political track.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Foreign Ministry is continuing its efforts to protect Omani citizens in high-risk areas by coordinating evacuation operations and ensuring their safe return.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry once again urges citizens to avoid areas of tension and to remain in contact with the Ministry\u2019s operations centre and Oman&#8217;s embassies in Tehran and neighbouring countries for the necessary support.<\/p>\n<p>This is an unofficial English version of an Arabic report. To view the official Arabic text, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/%d8%aa%d9%88%d8%a7%d8%b5%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ac%d9%87%d9%88%d8%af-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%af%d8%a8%d9%84%d9%88%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84\/?lang=ar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oman&#8217;s Foreign Minister called for intensified diplomatic pressure to revive the political track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,111],"tags":[263],"class_list":["post-25946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-posts-and-videos","category-news","tag-iran-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26054,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25946\/revisions\/26054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}