{"id":7911,"date":"2017-06-21T09:43:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T09:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=7911"},"modified":"2017-06-21T09:43:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T09:43:42","slug":"mohammed-bin-salman-named-saudi-arabias-crown-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2017\/06\/21\/mohammed-bin-salman-named-saudi-arabias-crown-prince\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohammed bin Salman named Saudi Arabia\u2019s crown prince"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia`s King Salman has named his son, Mohammed bin Salman, as heir, in a major reshuffle announced early on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A royal decree removed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, 57, as next-in-line to the throne and replaced him with Mohammed bin Salman, 31, who was previously the deputy crown prince.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the official Saudi Press Agency, the newly announced crown prince was also named deputy prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He already oversees a vast portfolio as defence minister and head of an economic council tasked with overhauling the country`s economy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some royal observers had long suspected his rise to power under his father`s reign might also accelerate his ascension to the throne.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The young prince was little known to Saudis and outsiders before Salman became king in January 2015. He had previously been in charge of his father`s royal court when Salman was the crown prince.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia`s King Salman has named his son, Mohammed bin Salman, as heir, in a major reshuffle announced early on Wednesday. &nbsp; A royal decree removed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, 57, as next-in-line to the throne and replaced him with Mohammed bin Salman, 31, who was previously the deputy crown prince. &nbsp; According to the official Saudi Press Agency, the newly announced crown prince was also named deputy prime minister. &nbsp; He already oversees a vast portfolio as defence minister and head of an economic council tasked with overhauling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7913,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911\/revisions\/7913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}