{"id":332104,"date":"2017-10-26T02:14:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T01:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-imposes-new-sanctions-on-hezbollah\/"},"modified":"2017-10-26T02:14:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T01:14:31","slug":"presstv-us-imposes-new-sanctions-on-hezbollah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-imposes-new-sanctions-on-hezbollah\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US imposes new sanctions on Hezbollah"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US House of Representatives has endorsed new sanctions on the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The new sanctions were passed by voice vote, without opposition on Wednesday on the pretext of the resistance group\u2019s \u201cacts of death and destruction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is while Hezbollah has played a major role in battling Daesh Takfiri terrorists near the Lebanese border with Syria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese critical measures will impose new sanctions to crack down on Hezbollah\u2019s financing, and hold it accountable for its acts of death and destruction,\u201d said Representative Ed Royce, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<figure class=\"image\" style=\"display:inline-block\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20171026\/d3122cfc-e40e-4f2d-a4b9-7b31b6b8cc99.jpg\" width=\"555\"\/><figcaption>Ed Royce speaks at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, October 23, 2017 in Washington, DC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>T<span style=\"color:#000000\">he lower chamber of the US Congress is set to introduce new sanctions against Iran on Thursday over Tehran\u2019s missile program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Iran\u00a0maintains that its tests are solely for defense purposes, and&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/10\/26\/539891\/US-imposes-new-sanctions-on-Hezbollah\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US House of Representatives has endorsed new sanctions on the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah. The new sanctions were passed by voice vote, without opposition on Wednesday on the pretext of the resistance group\u2019s \u201cacts of death and destruction.\u201d This is while Hezbollah has played a major role in battling Daesh Takfiri terrorists near the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":332105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-332104","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\/332104","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=332104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}