{"id":372702,"date":"2018-08-09T11:56:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T10:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/new-us-sanctions-not-based-on-evidence\/"},"modified":"2018-08-09T11:56:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T10:56:02","slug":"new-us-sanctions-not-based-on-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/new-us-sanctions-not-based-on-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"New US sanctions not based on evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Russia says a round of new sanctions imposed on Moscow by the United States over the alleged poisoning of a former Russian spy in the UK are not based on evidence and are \u201cdraconian.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe grew accustomed to not hearing any facts or evidence,\u201d said a statement by the Russian Embassy in the US on Thursday, a day after the US imposed a raft of sanctions on Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>Back on March 4, British authorities said that former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, 66, and his 33-year-old daughter, Yulia, had been hospitalized after they were found unconscious on a bench outside a shopping center in the city of Salisbury.<\/p>\n<p>Days later, they announced that both victims had been exposed to Novichok, a highly lethal chemical weapon purportedly developed under a secret Soviet program, accusing Moscow of carrying out the attack yet declining the Kremlin\u2019s request for a sample of the chemical agent.<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin has vehemently and repeatedly rejected any&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/08\/09\/570654\/Russia-US-draconian-sanctions-Skripal-UK\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia says a round of new sanctions imposed on Moscow by the United States over the alleged poisoning of a former Russian spy in the UK are not based on evidence and are \u201cdraconian.\u201d \u201cWe grew accustomed to not hearing any facts or evidence,\u201d said a statement by the Russian Embassy in the US on [&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-372702","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\/372702","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=372702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}