{"id":271475,"date":"2016-10-06T19:18:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T19:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-sanctions-against-syria-scraping-the-bottom-of-the-barrel\/"},"modified":"2016-10-06T21:19:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T21:19:12","slug":"us-sanctions-against-syria-scraping-the-bottom-of-the-barrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/us-sanctions-against-syria-scraping-the-bottom-of-the-barrel\/","title":{"rendered":"US sanctions against Syria \u2018scraping the bottom of the barrel\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>American efforts to add sanctions against Syria is \u201ccounterproductive\u201d and will make<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>achieving<\/strong> <strong> a ceasefire in the country impossible, a former US Senate policy adviser and diplomat says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurther US sanctions on Syria is rather a silly idea; we\u2019re really talking about scraping the bottom of the barrel,\u201d said James Jatras, who is also a specialist in international relations and legislative politics in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have shown pretty much every sanction we have against Syria and to try to think of something else is counterproductive,\u201d Jatras told Press TV on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>US President Barack Obama is considering more sanctions against Syria that could target lower-level military officers, following the failure of US and Russian efforts to revive a failed ceasefire in the country.<\/p>\n<p>American officials and diplomats said the new strategy is still being discussed, but initial efforts may focus on passing United Nations sanctions against those&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/10\/06\/487950\/Obama-US-Syria-sanctions-Russia-James-Jatras\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American efforts to add sanctions against Syria is \u201ccounterproductive\u201d and will make\u00a0achieving a ceasefire in the country impossible, a former US Senate policy adviser and diplomat says. \u201cFurther US sanctions on Syria is rather a silly idea; we\u2019re really talking about scraping the bottom of the barrel,\u201d said James Jatras, who is also a specialist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-271475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271475","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=271475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}