{"id":351223,"date":"2018-03-08T01:23:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T00:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/netanyahu-trump-discuss-war-preparations-against-iran\/"},"modified":"2018-03-08T01:23:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T00:23:55","slug":"netanyahu-trump-discuss-war-preparations-against-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/netanyahu-trump-discuss-war-preparations-against-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu, Trump discuss war preparations against Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Netanyahu, Trump discuss war preparations against Iran<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Bill Van Auken<br \/>\n    <br \/>7 March 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s five-day trip to the US has been dominated by a growing drumbeat for war against Iran, a regional struggle that would eclipse the immense carnage wrought by the past 15 years of uninterrupted US military intervention in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu\u2019s meeting with US President Donald Trump Monday was followed Tuesday by his appearance before the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the principal US Zionist lobby, in Washington. There, he proclaimed before a cheering audience that \u201cIran, Iran and Iran was the main topic of the meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli prime minister spoke in apocalyptic terms of Iran\u2019s growing influence in the Middle East, declaring \u201cdarkness is descending on our region\u201d and pointing to a map in which countries that he alleged Iran was dominating were painted black.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran is building an aggressive empire: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Gaza, Yemen, more to come,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to praise Trump for adopting a policy of provocation and aggression against Iran, declaring that \u201chis administration will not accept Iran\u2019s aggression in the region\u201d and \u201cwill never accept a nuclear-armed Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu said that Trump \u201chas also made it clear that if the fatal flaws of the nuclear deal are not fixed he will walk away from the deal and restore sanctions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump must sign a waiver in May to prevent the reimposition of US sanctions that were lifted as part of the nuclear agreement reached between Tehran and the major world powers in 2015, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The administration has issued an ultimatum to its erstwhile European&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/03\/07\/aipa-m07.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Netanyahu, Trump discuss war preparations against Iran By Bill Van Auken 7 March 2018 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s five-day trip to the US has been dominated by a growing drumbeat for war against Iran, a regional struggle that would eclipse the immense carnage wrought by the past 15 years of uninterrupted US military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-351223","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\/351223","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\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}