{"id":331751,"date":"2017-10-23T20:21:18","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T19:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-trying-to-create-united-front-against-iran\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T20:21:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T19:21:18","slug":"presstv-us-trying-to-create-united-front-against-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-trying-to-create-united-front-against-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018US trying to create united front against Iran\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson\u2019s trip to the Middle East is an attempt to create a united front against Iran, says Brian Becker, an American political commentator and antiwar activist.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Becker, national coordinator of the\u00a0<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 Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Tillerson is on a trip to the Middle East where he has visited Saudi Arabia and Qatar, with reports in American media saying he is trying to find a diplomatic solution to the regional standoff between Riyadh and Doha.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates cut their diplomatic ties with Qatar on June 5, accusing Doha of sponsoring terrorism and destabilizing the region.<\/p>\n<p>The Saudi-led bloc has also imposed sanctions against the tiny Persian Gulf country, including restrictions on Qatari aircraft using their airspace. Qatar\u2019s only land&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/10\/23\/539665\/Tillersons-trip-to-Mideast-an-attempt-to-create-united-front-against-Iran\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson\u2019s trip to the Middle East is an attempt to create a united front against Iran, says Brian Becker, an American political commentator and antiwar activist. Becker, national coordinator of the\u00a0ANSWER Coalition, a protest umbrella group consisting of many antiwar and civil rights organizations, made the remarks in a phone [&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-331751","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\/331751","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=331751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}