{"id":359198,"date":"2018-05-01T11:24:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T10:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-revises-statement-saying-iran-has-secret-n-program\/"},"modified":"2018-05-01T11:24:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T10:24:03","slug":"presstv-us-revises-statement-saying-iran-has-secret-n-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-revises-statement-saying-iran-has-secret-n-program\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US revises statement saying Iran \u2018has\u2019 secret N-program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The White House has changed a public statement, which was issued in support of the Israeli prime minister\u2019s speech against Iran\u2019s nuclear activities and said\u00a0Tehran\u00a0\u201chas\u201d a secret nuclear program.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The statement was initially released by White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Monday evening, hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a televised address, unveiled what he called documents which show there is a \u201csecret\u201d side to the Iranian nuclear program. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese facts are consistent with what the United States has long known: Iran has a robust, clandestine nuclear weapons program that it has tried and failed to hide from the world and from its own people,\u201d read the initial version.<\/p>\n<p>However, the White House later changed the tense of the verb in the second sentence from present to past, saying Iran \u201chad a robust, clandestine nuclear weapons program&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Citing a White House official, NBC&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/05\/01\/560264\/United-States-Iran-nuclear-Israel-Netanyahu\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House has changed a public statement, which was issued in support of the Israeli prime minister\u2019s speech against Iran\u2019s nuclear activities and said\u00a0Tehran\u00a0\u201chas\u201d a secret nuclear program. The statement was initially released by White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Monday evening, hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a televised [&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-359198","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\/359198","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=359198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}