{"id":379093,"date":"2018-09-29T23:53:14","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T22:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-creating-basis-for-middle-east-conflagration\/"},"modified":"2018-09-29T23:53:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T22:53:14","slug":"presstv-us-creating-basis-for-middle-east-conflagration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-creating-basis-for-middle-east-conflagration\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018US creating basis for Middle East conflagration\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The United States is creating the basis for the regional conflagration in the Middle East by fortifying its circle around Iran, American writer and academic James Petras says.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US State Department has endorsed the proposed sale of more than 800 tactical missiles to Bahrain amid the Al Khalifah regime\u2019s heavy-handed crackdown on pro-democracy campaigners and political dissidents in the tiny Persian Gulf country.<\/p>\n<p>The approval includes Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) Unitary Rocket Pods and Army Tactical Missiles System (ATACMS) Unitary missiles for an estimated cost of $300 million, the Arabic-language al-Khaleej al-Jadeed news website reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, it\u2019s part of the US setting up the aggressive policy; mainly it is directed against the government in Iran. And it\u2019s largely responsible for encouraging this aggression with the addition of its support of Israel and Saudi Arabia,\u201d Professor Petras&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/09\/29\/575591\/US-creating-basis-for-regional-conflagration-in-Middle-East\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is creating the basis for the regional conflagration in the Middle East by fortifying its circle around Iran, American writer and academic James Petras says.\u00a0 The US State Department has endorsed the proposed sale of more than 800 tactical missiles to Bahrain amid the Al Khalifah regime\u2019s heavy-handed crackdown on pro-democracy campaigners [&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-379093","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\/379093","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=379093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}