{"id":339786,"date":"2017-12-16T19:50:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T18:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-perpetuating-destructive-afghan-war\/"},"modified":"2017-12-16T19:50:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T18:50:47","slug":"presstv-us-perpetuating-destructive-afghan-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-perpetuating-destructive-afghan-war\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018US perpetuating destructive Afghan war\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The United States should cease intervening in Afghanistan and follow the policy of Iran of peaceful coexistence and independence for the Afghan people, because American activities there are perpetuating a destructive war there, an American writer and retired professor says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professor James Petras made the comments in an interview with Press TV on Saturday while commenting on\u00a0a report which says the United States is pressuring the Afghan government to ditch the thousands of free Kalashnikov assault rifles that it has received from Russia and buy American equivalents instead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Americans insist that 50,000 Kalashnikov rifles with munitions that were handed over to the Afghan security forces free of charge be removed from operational use and Afghanistan buy US-made rifles and submachine guns instead,\u201d Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told his country\u2019s lawmakers Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has donated the weapons over the past few years, with&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/12\/16\/545842\/US-perpetuating-destructive-war-in-Afghanistan\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States should cease intervening in Afghanistan and follow the policy of Iran of peaceful coexistence and independence for the Afghan people, because American activities there are perpetuating a destructive war there, an American writer and retired professor says. Professor James Petras made the comments in an interview with Press TV on Saturday while [&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-339786","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\/339786","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=339786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}