{"id":351872,"date":"2018-03-12T23:31:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T22:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-prepared-to-act-unilaterally-on-syria\/"},"modified":"2018-03-12T23:31:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T22:31:00","slug":"presstv-us-prepared-to-act-unilaterally-on-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-prepared-to-act-unilaterally-on-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US prepared to act unilaterally on Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has warned that if the Security Council fails to act on Syria, Washington is ready &#8220;to act if we must,&#8221; just as it did last year when it bombed a Syrian government air base over allegations of chemical weapons attack.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Haley\u2019s comments on Monday are to back a draft resolution circulated at the council earlier in the day that demands an immediate 30-day ceasefire in Damascus and eastern Ghouta, where Syrian forces are targeting terrorist groups which are shelling the capital.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"312\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20180312\/da1a0362-a3f4-486e-bf1c-9f4a6b52f192.jpg\" width=\"555\"\/><figcaption>United Nations diplomats meet during a UN Security Council meeting on the situation in Syria at the United Nations on March 12, 2018 in New York City.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;It is not the path we prefer, but it is a path we have demonstrated we will take, and we are prepared to take again&#8230; When the international community consistently fails to act, there are times when states are compelled to take their own action,&#8221; Haley told the 15-member&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/03\/12\/555252\/Haley-US-act-unilaterally-Syria\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has warned that if the Security Council fails to act on Syria, Washington is ready &#8220;to act if we must,&#8221; just as it did last year when it bombed a Syrian government air base over allegations of chemical weapons attack. Haley\u2019s comments on Monday are to back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":351873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-351872","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\/351872","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=351872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}