{"id":379074,"date":"2018-09-29T19:49:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T18:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-basra-closure-shows-us-messed-up-in-iraq\/"},"modified":"2018-09-29T19:49:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T18:49:13","slug":"presstv-basra-closure-shows-us-messed-up-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-basra-closure-shows-us-messed-up-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Basra closure shows US \u2018messed up\u2019 in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US messed up in Iraq and now they want to make Iran a scapegoat for their botched policies, according to a former Pentagon official.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Pentagon security analyst\u00a0Michael Maloof\u00a0told Press TV in a phone interview on Saturday that the US State Department\u2019s decision to close and evacuate its consulate in Basra in southern Iraq is proof that Washington messed up.<\/p>\n<p>The US State Department ordered closed the consulate over what it deemed as security risks following violent incidents in the southern Iraqi city.<\/p>\n<p>Maloof said that the US has lost control in Iraq due to the dire security situation there. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe US realized that it is absolutely losing its ability to control events in Iraq\u00a0generally\u00a0because of the political situation there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Maloof noted that the people of Iraq are against US presence in the country\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople of Iraq have decided that they don\u2019t want the US influence around any longer, because of all&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/09\/29\/575574\/Iraq-Basra-Consulate-Relocation-Maloof\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US messed up in Iraq and now they want to make Iran a scapegoat for their botched policies, according to a former Pentagon official. Former Pentagon security analyst\u00a0Michael Maloof\u00a0told Press TV in a phone interview on Saturday that the US State Department\u2019s decision to close and evacuate its consulate in Basra in southern Iraq [&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-379074","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\/379074","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=379074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}