{"id":379607,"date":"2018-10-04T12:48:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T11:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-iraq-officially-rejects-us-claim-of-iran-role-in-basra-violence\/"},"modified":"2018-10-04T12:48:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T11:48:22","slug":"presstv-iraq-officially-rejects-us-claim-of-iran-role-in-basra-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-iraq-officially-rejects-us-claim-of-iran-role-in-basra-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Iraq officially rejects US claim of Iran role in Basra violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Iraq\u2019s Foreign Ministry has dismissed accusations by the United States that Iran is to blame for recent violence \u2014 including through alleged militant groups \u2014 in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, where Washington recently closed its consulate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no forces or military groups in Iraq\u00a0that receive orders from abroad, whether from Iran\u00a0or from another country,\u201d said Iraq\u2019s Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmad Mahjoub in Washington on Wednesday, according The Washington Times.<\/p>\n<p>He was speaking during a round-table discussion with reporters held at the Iraqi Embassy in the US capital, where he is on a trip to hold talks with US officials.<\/p>\n<p>Mahjoub said Iraqi authorities were \u201csurprised\u201d by Washington\u2019s recent decision to withdraw American personnel from the US consulate in Basra following an apparent rocket attack at the diplomatic perimeter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were surprised that our American friends withdrew their staff from the US&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/04\/576015\/Iraq-Basra-consulate-Iran-US-Pompeo\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq\u2019s Foreign Ministry has dismissed accusations by the United States that Iran is to blame for recent violence \u2014 including through alleged militant groups \u2014 in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, where Washington recently closed its consulate. \u201cThere are no forces or military groups in Iraq\u00a0that receive orders from abroad, whether from Iran\u00a0or from [&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-379607","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\/379607","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=379607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}