{"id":376945,"date":"2018-09-12T00:20:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T23:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-using-cw-to-justify-aggression-on-syria\/"},"modified":"2018-09-12T00:20:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T23:20:46","slug":"presstv-us-using-cw-to-justify-aggression-on-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-using-cw-to-justify-aggression-on-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018US using CW to justify aggression on Syria\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem says the United States is using internationally-banned chemical weapons to invent a pretext for a military campaign against his conflict-plagued Arab country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an exclusive interview with English-language al-Hayat magazine, Mullem said it is not the first time that chemical attack\u00a0claims\u00a0have been used to justify an attack on Syria.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the Damascus government does not possess any chemical warfare, and that the so-called White Helmets aid group has on occasions staged mock chemical attacks to serve as proof that the Syrian government has conducted the assaults.<\/p>\n<p>The top Syrian diplomat said the cession of foreign intervention in Syria\u2019s domestic affairs will help the settlement of the Syrian conflict, stressing that intra-Syrian negotiations will produce a political solution to the ongoing crisis once such meddling is completely halted.<\/p>\n<p>Muallem further noted that drafting&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/09\/11\/573868\/US-is-using-chemical-weapons-to-justify-military-aggression-on-Syria-Muallem\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem says the United States is using internationally-banned chemical weapons to invent a pretext for a military campaign against his conflict-plagued Arab country. Speaking in an exclusive interview with English-language al-Hayat magazine, Mullem said it is not the first time that chemical attack\u00a0claims\u00a0have been used to justify an attack on Syria. [&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-376945","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\/376945","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=376945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}