{"id":356237,"date":"2018-04-11T14:08:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T13:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/save-your-missiles-for-terrorists\/"},"modified":"2018-04-11T14:08:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T13:08:01","slug":"save-your-missiles-for-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/save-your-missiles-for-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"Save your missiles for terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>In response to US President Donald Trump&#8217;s threat of an imminent missile attack on Syria, Russia has advised Washington to target terrorists instead of the Syrian government and its forces.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Smart missiles should fly toward terrorists, not legal government,&#8221; a Russian foreign ministry spokesman said Wednesday, shortly after Trump warned Russia in an incendiary tweet to \u201cget ready\u201d for US strikes in Syria.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/984022625440747520\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria. Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and \u201csmart!\u201d You shouldn\u2019t be partners with a Gas Killing Animal who kills his people and enjoys it!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/984022625440747520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>The tweet came after the United Nations Security Council failed to fend off the prospect of a possible military intervention by the West in the Arab country over an alleged chemical weapons attack that took place outside Damascus over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/04\/11\/558160\/Russia-US-Trump-Syria-missile-attack-Assad\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to US President Donald Trump&#8217;s threat of an imminent missile attack on Syria, Russia has advised Washington to target terrorists instead of the Syrian government and its forces. &#8220;Smart missiles should fly toward terrorists, not legal government,&#8221; a Russian foreign ministry spokesman said Wednesday, shortly after Trump warned Russia in an incendiary tweet [&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-356237","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\/356237","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=356237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}