{"id":390815,"date":"2018-12-28T10:48:35","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T09:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/president-trumps-sneak-trip-a-disrespect-to-iraq\/"},"modified":"2018-12-28T10:48:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T09:48:35","slug":"president-trumps-sneak-trip-a-disrespect-to-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/president-trumps-sneak-trip-a-disrespect-to-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump&#8217;s &#8216;sneak trip&#8217; a disrespect to Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Iran&#8217;s\u00a0Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi says a &#8220;sneak trip&#8221; by US President Donald Trump to Iraq Thursday was &#8220;outside diplomatic norms and a disrespect of\u00a0the country&#8217;s national sovereignty.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite countless interventions and thousands of billions of dollars the US has wasted on its illegitimate presence in the region and in particular in Iraq, Trump still has to visit a regional country in a total secret, or so to speak, sneaky\u00a0way amid the\u00a0tightest security measures,&#8221;\u00a0he\u00a0said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The visit, he said, was strongly opposed by the Iraqi people and widely criticized by experts.<\/p>\n<p>Trump made an\u00a0unannounced three-hour visit to the al-Asad Air Base near Baghdad on Thursday, sparking\u00a0a wave of condemnation\u00a0from Iraqi\u00a0political and military leaders, with some of them demanding the expulsion of US forces.<\/p>\n<p>Qassemi strongly criticized Trump\u2019s &#8220;meddlesome and opportunist&#8221; remarks in Iraq and said \u201cregional governments and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/12\/28\/584160\/Iran-US-Trump-Iraq-visit\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s\u00a0Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi says a &#8220;sneak trip&#8221; by US President Donald Trump to Iraq Thursday was &#8220;outside diplomatic norms and a disrespect of\u00a0the country&#8217;s national sovereignty.&#8221; &#8220;Despite countless interventions and thousands of billions of dollars the US has wasted on its illegitimate presence in the region and in particular in Iraq, Trump still [&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-390815","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\/390815","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=390815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}