{"id":155256,"date":"2015-05-29T21:07:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T21:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=155256"},"modified":"2015-05-29T21:07:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T21:07:41","slug":"us-set-boost-military-aid-israel-amid-fears-iran-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-set-boost-military-aid-israel-amid-fears-iran-diplomacy\/","title":{"rendered":"US set to boost military aid to Israel amid fears over Iran diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>The United States is poised to increase its annual military assistance to Israel\u00a0amid Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s fears over nuclear diplomacy with Iran, according to reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the current $3 billion annual military aid package set to expire in 2017, US and Israeli officials\u00a0are discussing a new 10-year deal that could be worth up to $45 billion.<\/p>\n<p>A US official said on condition of anonymity that the new agreement could bring US military aid up to $3.7 billion a year.<\/p>\n<p>During a briefing with reporters on Thursday, Netanyahu refused to say how much Israel was requesting from the United States.<\/p>\n<p>However, he said the increased military assistance was not a \u201cquid pro quo\u201d for a possible nuclear deal with Iran, which Israel strongly opposes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no trade-off requiring I agree to this [nuclear] deal with Iran. The deal is bad and we will continue to oppose it,\u201d Netanyahu said, according to Israeli media.<\/p>\n<p>Alistair Baskey, a White House National Security Council spokesman, acknowledged Thursday that US and Israeli officials were expected to discuss ways in which \u201clong-term security cooperation between the two countries can be further strengthened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But, he said \u201cno such detailed discussions at a senior level have occurred recently.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/05\/29\/413394\/US-increasing-military-aid-Israel-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is poised to increase its annual military assistance to Israel\u00a0amid Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s fears over nuclear diplomacy with Iran, according to reports. With the current $3 billion annual military aid package set to expire in 2017, US and Israeli officials\u00a0are discussing a new 10-year deal that could be worth up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-155256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155256","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}