{"id":374803,"date":"2018-08-25T08:43:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T07:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-following-zionist-foreign-policy-against-iran\/"},"modified":"2018-08-25T08:43:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T07:43:27","slug":"presstv-trump-following-zionist-foreign-policy-against-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-following-zionist-foreign-policy-against-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018Trump following Zionist foreign policy against Iran\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump\u2019s withdrawal from the international nuclear deal with Iran and his tightening of sanctions against Tehran are an extension of a \u201cZionist foreign policy\u201d that is isolating Washington, a US academic and analyst says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The reimposition of US economic sanctions against Iran will harm Iran\u2019s economy but the Islamic Republic will \u201cthrive\u201d in the long run, said James Fetzer, a retired professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be tough on Iran economically, but that the nation will survive and thrive and continue to be an example for the rest of the world,\u201d Fetzer said in an interview with Press TV on Friday<\/p>\n<p>Russia, China, and \u201cmost of the European Union are very, very disenchanted with the US withdrawing from the Iran nuclear agreement,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately these moves for sanctions, which have no basis whatsoever, are indefensible and purely political and appear to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/08\/25\/572163\/US-Trump-Iran-James-Fetzer-Zionist-foreign-policy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump\u2019s withdrawal from the international nuclear deal with Iran and his tightening of sanctions against Tehran are an extension of a \u201cZionist foreign policy\u201d that is isolating Washington, a US academic and analyst says. The reimposition of US economic sanctions against Iran will harm Iran\u2019s economy but the Islamic Republic will \u201cthrive\u201d [&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-374803","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\/374803","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=374803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}