{"id":367470,"date":"2018-06-30T19:55:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T18:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-plot-to-topple-iran-govt-wont-work-scholar\/"},"modified":"2018-06-30T19:55:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T18:55:51","slug":"presstv-us-plot-to-topple-iran-govt-wont-work-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-plot-to-topple-iran-govt-wont-work-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US plot to topple Iran govt. won&#8217;t work: Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The United States\u2019 plot to exert economic pressure on the Iranian nation in order to trigger a government change in the country is a joke, according\u00a0to American US scholar and political\u00a0analyst\u00a0Kevin Barrett.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Barrett, who is an author and political commentator in Madison, Wisconsin told Press TV on Saturday that the odds for the US to succeed in its\u00a0plot for regime change in Iran were minuscule.<\/p>\n<p>He said US President Donald Trump\u00a0and top officials in his administration like Secretary of State Mike Pompeo\u00a0and National Security adviser John Bolton\u00a0were revealing the ugly face of American leaders to the Iranians.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"312\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20180630\/460ea8c4-944a-4902-b4f3-49d96f195005.jpg\" width=\"555\"\/><figcaption>US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L) and US National Security adviser John Bolton. (Photo by AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Barrett quoted the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei as saying that the US did\u00a0a favor to the Iranian nation\u00a0by showing the true face of the White House&#8217;s leaders.<\/p>\n<p>The analyst said Washington is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/06\/30\/566592\/US-plot-to-topple-Iran-govt--wont-work-Scholar\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States\u2019 plot to exert economic pressure on the Iranian nation in order to trigger a government change in the country is a joke, according\u00a0to American US scholar and political\u00a0analyst\u00a0Kevin Barrett. Barrett, who is an author and political commentator in Madison, Wisconsin told Press TV on Saturday that the odds for the US to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":367471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-367470","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\/367470","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=367470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}