{"id":383585,"date":"2018-11-04T05:13:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T04:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-iran-general-challenges-trumps-got-meme-2\/"},"modified":"2018-11-04T05:13:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T04:13:46","slug":"presstv-iran-general-challenges-trumps-got-meme-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-iran-general-challenges-trumps-got-meme-2\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Iran general challenges Trump&#8217;s GoT meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Iran\u2019s Major General Qassem Soleimani has fired back at US President Donald Trump\u2019s use of a meme imitated from popular American drama series &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221; with one of his own, vowing to \u201cstand against\u201d American sanctions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The commander of the Quds Force of Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) posted on Friday an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BpsVILbjYuM\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading\">Instagram photo<\/a> inspired by the book series-turned-HBO hit\u00a0show, which reads, \u201cI will stand against you\u201d in the show\u2019s signature font, as used in Trump\u2019s tweet earlier in the day threatening Tehran with more sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>The photo was widely viewed as a direct response to\u00a0the US president&#8217;s own <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1058388700617498625\/photo\/1\">Westeros-inspired tweet<\/a>\u00a0that read, &#8220;Sanctions are coming November 5.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The post came shortly after the Trump administration announced plans to reinstate the last set of sanctions\u00a0lifted on Iran under the 2015 Iran nuclear deal early next week. Trump announced in May that he was withdrawing the US from the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/11\/04\/578989\/US-President-Donald-Trump-Iran-Major-General-Qassem-Soleimani-sanctions-threat-Iran-nuclear-deal-game-of-thrones\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s Major General Qassem Soleimani has fired back at US President Donald Trump\u2019s use of a meme imitated from popular American drama series &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221; with one of his own, vowing to \u201cstand against\u201d American sanctions. The commander of the Quds Force of Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) posted on Friday an Instagram [&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-383585","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\/383585","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=383585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}