{"id":374523,"date":"2018-08-23T09:52:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T08:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-pompeo-uk-fm-discuss-iran-russia-threat\/"},"modified":"2018-08-23T09:52:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T08:52:15","slug":"presstv-pompeo-uk-fm-discuss-iran-russia-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-pompeo-uk-fm-discuss-iran-russia-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Pompeo, UK FM discuss Iran, Russia \u2018threat\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and British Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt have met in Washington, DC, to discuss the \u201cthreat\u201d posed by Russia and Iran\u2019s influence in the Middle East region.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During the meeting on Wednesday, Pompeo and Hunt \u201cdiscussed a number of global issues, including the ongoing threat posed by Russia\u2019s dangerous and destabilizing activity and Iran\u2019s malign behavior,\u201d State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert said.<\/p>\n<p>The US and its allies have long <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2018\/08\/22\/571897\/John-Bolton-Russia-Syria-Iran\">criticized <\/a>Iran and Russia for supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in his ongoing fight against the Daesh terrorist group and other foreign-backed militants..<\/p>\n<p>Washington has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2017\/12\/14\/545629\/Iran-Yemen-missile-Nikki-Haley\">claimed <\/a>that Iran has been providing Yemen\u2019s resistance forces with long-range missiles to retaliate a deadly military aggression by Saudi Arabia and other major US allies in the Middle East. Both Iran and Yemen have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2018\/03\/19\/555988\/Zarif-missiles-US-Twitter\">denied <\/a>the claims.<\/p>\n<p><strong>No differences of opinion in dealing with&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/08\/23\/571991\/US-Pompeo-UK-Hunt-meeting-Iran-Russia-threat\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and British Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt have met in Washington, DC, to discuss the \u201cthreat\u201d posed by Russia and Iran\u2019s influence in the Middle East region. During the meeting on Wednesday, Pompeo and Hunt \u201cdiscussed a number of global issues, including the ongoing threat posed by Russia\u2019s dangerous and [&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-374523","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\/374523","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=374523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}