{"id":101432,"date":"2013-12-27T11:23:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T11:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/crackdown-on-brotherhood-concerns-us\/"},"modified":"2013-12-27T11:23:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T11:23:17","slug":"crackdown-on-brotherhood-concerns-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/crackdown-on-brotherhood-concerns-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Crackdown on Brotherhood concerns US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The United States has expressed its \u00c5\u201cconcern\u201d over the military-backed Egyptian government\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Egypt\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s interim government officially labeled the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group on Wednesday, saying that its findings show the movement launched a bomb attack, killing 16 people and leaving some 140 wounded, in the city of Mansoura on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>However, US Secretary of State John Kerry conveyed his concerns over the interim Egyptian government\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s decision during a phone conversation with the country\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s foreign minister Nabil Fahmy while he condemned the deadly bombing in Mansoura.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c5\u201cKerry expressed concern about the interim Egyptian government&#8217;s December 25 terrorist designation of the Muslim Brotherhood, and recent detentions and arrests,\u201d the US State Department said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c5\u201cHe [also] condemned the horrific terrorist bombing of the Dakahliya security directorate in Mansoura,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>The Muslim Brotherhood had earlier denied any links to the Manousra attack and condemned the violence there. Meanwhile, a group of militants, who call themselves Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, has claimed responsibility for the deadly bombing.<\/p>\n<p>According to US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki, Kerry also underscored during his phone call with Fahmy \u00c5\u201cthe need for an inclusive political process across the political spectrum that respects the fundamental human rights of all Egyptians in order to achieve political stability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The military-backed Egyptian government has launched a bloody crackdown on supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi and arrested more than 2,000 Muslim Brotherhood members.<\/p>\n<p>The administration of President Barack Obama, that refused to call Morsi\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s ouster a coup in order to avoid an automatic congressional ban on the US aid to the Egyptian military, was seeking to build closer ties with Egypt\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi by installing Robert Ford as the US ambassador to Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>However, the White House decided to keep Ford in his current position as the US ambassador to Syria after Egypt\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s interim government indicated it did not want him as the US envoy to Cairo.<\/p>\n<p>ISH\/ISH<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/12\/27\/342200\/crackdown-on-brotherhood-us-concerned\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Crackdown on Brotherhood concerns US\">Press TV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has expressed its \u00c5\u201cconcern\u201d over the military-backed Egyptian government\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood. Egypt\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s interim government officially labeled the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group on Wednesday, saying that its findings show the movement launched a bomb attack, killing 16 people and leaving some 140 wounded, in the city of Mansoura on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-101432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}