{"id":232308,"date":"2016-03-18T04:08:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T04:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/gop-at-war-against-peace-between-us-and-iran-activist\/"},"modified":"2016-03-18T04:08:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T04:08:45","slug":"gop-at-war-against-peace-between-us-and-iran-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/gop-at-war-against-peace-between-us-and-iran-activist\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP at war against &#039;peace&#039; between US and Iran: Activist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"111.40662251656\">\n<p><strong>Republican lawmakers in the US Senate are trying to sabotage a possible rapprochement or relaxation of tensions between the United States and Iran, says Brian Becker, an American political commentator and antiwar activist.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Becker, national coordinator of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.answercoalition.org\/\">ANSWER Coalition<\/a>, a protest umbrella group consisting of many antiwar and civil rights organizations, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A group of Republican senators introduced a bill on Thursday to impose new sanctions against Iran over what legislators have described as Tehran\u2019s support for terrorism and human rights violations.<\/p>\n<p>The bill is sponsored by Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican presidential candidate, and Senators Mark Kirk, Kelly Ayotte, Dan Coats and Cory Gardner as well as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.<\/p>\n<p>Nine other Republican senators have also signed on the new bill, dubbed the \u201cIran Terrorism and Human Rights Sanctions Act of 2016.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/03\/18\/456368\/-GOP-war-peace-Iran\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican lawmakers in the US Senate are trying to sabotage a possible rapprochement or relaxation of tensions between the United States and Iran, says Brian Becker, an American political commentator and antiwar activist. Becker, national coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition, a protest umbrella group consisting of many antiwar and civil rights organizations, made the remarks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-232308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232308","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=232308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}