{"id":362699,"date":"2018-05-25T01:11:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T00:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/syrian-official-rejects-us-demand-for-iranian-withdrawal\/"},"modified":"2018-05-25T01:11:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T00:11:25","slug":"syrian-official-rejects-us-demand-for-iranian-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/syrian-official-rejects-us-demand-for-iranian-withdrawal\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian Official Rejects US Demand for Iranian Withdrawal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Syria on Wednesday dismissed American calls for the withdrawal of Iranian troops and Lebanese Hezbollah militants from the war-torn country.<\/p>\n<p>Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mikdad told Russia\u2019s Sputnik news agency that \u201cthis topic is not even on the agenda of discussion, since it concerns the sovereignty of Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a list of demands this week for a new nuclear deal with Iran, including the pullout of its forces from Syria, where they have provided crucial support to President Bashar Assad\u2019s government. Russia is also a key ally of Assad, and has been waging an air campaign in Syria since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Mikdad said in Wednesday\u2019s remarks that Syria \u201chighly appreciates\u201d Russia\u2019s military support as well as \u201cadvisers\u201d from Iran and Hezbollah. He added that \u201cwe cannot let anyone even raise this issue\u201d of the Iranian withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who ask for something like that \u2014 and this is definitely not our Russian friends \u2014 are considering the possibility of intervention in all parts of Syria, including the support of terrorists in Syria and elsewhere in the region,\u201d Mikdad said.<\/p>\n<p>At a meeting with Assad, who visited Sochi last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that a political settlement in Syria should encourage foreign countries to withdraw their troops.<\/p>\n<p>Putin\u2019s envoy for Syria, Alexander Lavrentyev, later commented that the Russian leader\u2019s statement was aimed at the United States and Turkey,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/syrian-official-rejects-us-demand-for-iranian-withdrawal\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syria on Wednesday dismissed American calls for the withdrawal of Iranian troops and Lebanese Hezbollah militants from the war-torn country. Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mikdad told Russia\u2019s Sputnik news agency that \u201cthis topic is not even on the agenda of discussion, since it concerns the sovereignty of Syria.\u201d U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-362699","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\/362699","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\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}