{"id":316600,"date":"2017-07-10T06:29:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T05:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/senators-mccain-graham-blast-tillersons-russia-stance\/"},"modified":"2017-07-10T06:29:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T05:29:44","slug":"senators-mccain-graham-blast-tillersons-russia-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/senators-mccain-graham-blast-tillersons-russia-stance\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators McCain, Graham blast Tillerson\u2019s Russia stance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Senior US Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham have expressed concern over Secretary of State Rex Tillerson\u2019s commending of Russia\u2019s \u201cright approach\u201d in Syria.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His statements about Syria really disturb me. No, (Russian President Vladimir) Putin does not have it right when it comes to Syria,&#8221; Graham said on Sunday. &#8220;I am so worried about the State Department.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tillerson said after attending a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Putin on Friday that Moscow may have &#8220;got the right approach&#8221; and Washington the wrong one to resolving the ongoing conflict in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Both Russia and the US have been leading military campaigns in Syria. Unlike Washington, however, Moscow only intervened upon a request from Damascus and has coordinated its airstrikes with Syrian military forces to minimize civilian casualties.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20170710\/04417bc8-3697-43cb-a147-41d99f46d262.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Senators John McCain (L) and Lindsey Graham (Photo by AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMaybe they&#8217;ve got the right approach and we&#8217;ve got the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/07\/10\/527972\/US-Russia-Syria-Tillerson-McCain-Graham-Putin-Trump\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior US Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham have expressed concern over Secretary of State Rex Tillerson\u2019s commending of Russia\u2019s \u201cright approach\u201d in Syria. &#8220;His statements about Syria really disturb me. No, (Russian President Vladimir) Putin does not have it right when it comes to Syria,&#8221; Graham said on Sunday. &#8220;I am so worried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":316601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-316600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316600","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=316600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}