{"id":187941,"date":"2015-10-02T17:03:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T17:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=187941"},"modified":"2015-10-02T17:03:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T17:03:28","slug":"us-playing-losing-hand-russia-syria-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-playing-losing-hand-russia-syria-activist\/","title":{"rendered":"US playing \u2018losing hand\u2019 against Russia in Syria: Activist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>The United States is playing a \u201closing hand\u201d against Russia in Syria, because the legitimate government of President Bashar al-Assad is not going to fall, says an American anti-war activist.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia has provided aid to Syria to defeat the armies backed by the US,\u201d said Joe Iosbaker, a leader of the United National Antiwar Coalition.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Russia carried out its first airstrikes in Syria following a warning that the US should clear the skies in the Arab country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia was able to do this because\u2026 despite claims by the US and Western media the government of Bashar al-Assad is not about to fall,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government of Syria is a legitimate government. Syria has been invaded by foreign-backed armies. When nations are attacked by other countries, they have the right under international law to seek aid. They can seek aid from another country; so the aid being given to Syria by Russia is legal,\u201d said the activist from Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>He made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV, when asked to comment on a statement by former\u00a0US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who criticized President Barack Obama\u2019s policy in Syria, saying he was &#8220;out-gamed&#8221; by Russia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/10\/02\/431627\/US-Russia-airstrikes-Syria-ISIL-Daesh-Bashar-alAssad\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is playing a \u201closing hand\u201d against Russia in Syria, because the legitimate government of President Bashar al-Assad is not going to fall, says an American anti-war activist. \u201cRussia has provided aid to Syria to defeat the armies backed by the US,\u201d said Joe Iosbaker, a leader of the United National Antiwar Coalition. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-187941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187941","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=187941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}