{"id":330678,"date":"2017-10-16T12:10:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T11:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-sanctioning-of-irgc-beyond-insanity\/"},"modified":"2017-10-16T12:10:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T11:10:15","slug":"presstv-us-sanctioning-of-irgc-beyond-insanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-sanctioning-of-irgc-beyond-insanity\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US sanctioning of IRGC &#8216;beyond insanity&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>It is \u201cbeyond insanity\u201d for the United States to accuse the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps of wrongdoing despite its record in fighting terror, says an American analyst, noting that Washington is in no place to criticize others given its long list of \u201ccriminal activities.\u201d \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gordon Duff, a senior analyst with Veterans Today, told Press TV on Sunday that the elite force had done \u201cexceptionally well\u201d in fighting terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n<p>He made the remarks in reaction to reports that the US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was planning to introduce new sanctions against the elite force.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Fox News on Sunday, Mnuchin said he had already discussed the matter with his counterparts in other countries at the latest meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea of sanctioning these people is pure insanity,\u201d Duff said,\u00a0before going on to criticize Washington\u2019s policy of slapping&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/10\/16\/538793\/US-Trump-IRGC-sanctions-Gordon-Duff\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is \u201cbeyond insanity\u201d for the United States to accuse the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps of wrongdoing despite its record in fighting terror, says an American analyst, noting that Washington is in no place to criticize others given its long list of \u201ccriminal activities.\u201d \u00a0 Gordon Duff, a senior analyst with Veterans Today, told Press [&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-330678","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\/330678","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=330678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}