{"id":356912,"date":"2018-04-15T18:34:57","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T17:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-threatens-further-measures-against-syria\/"},"modified":"2018-04-15T18:34:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T17:34:57","slug":"presstv-uk-threatens-further-measures-against-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-threatens-further-measures-against-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-UK threatens further measures against Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Britain\u2019s foreign minister says London will study the \u201coptions\u201d with its allies if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad again uses chemical weapons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no proposal on the table at the moment for further attacks because so far thank heavens the Assad regime have not been so foolish as to launch another chemical weapons attack,\u201d Boris Johnson said on Sunday in an interview with the BBC<\/p>\n<p>Johnson backed UK Prime Minister Theresa May\u2019s decision to join the United States and France to strike chemical weapons facilities in Syria on Saturday, saying it was the right thing to do to deter the further use of chemical weapons.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"312\" src=\"http:\/\/presstv.com\/Default\/embedattached\/600165\" width=\"555\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Syrian government has rejected claims that it was behind the suspected chemical attack near the capital Damascus on April 7. The attack purportedly took place in the former militant-held town of Douma in Eastern Ghouta.<\/p>\n<p>The American military described that attack as &#8220;precision strikes&#8221; on three targets in Syria&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/04\/15\/558603\/UK-Britain-Syria-Johnson-Missile-Attack\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s foreign minister says London will study the \u201coptions\u201d with its allies if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad again uses chemical weapons. \u201cThere is no proposal on the table at the moment for further attacks because so far thank heavens the Assad regime have not been so foolish as to launch another chemical weapons attack,\u201d Boris [&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-356912","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\/356912","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=356912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}