{"id":392451,"date":"2019-01-11T13:55:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T12:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-seeking-to-inflict-chaos-in-middle-east\/"},"modified":"2019-01-11T13:55:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T12:55:51","slug":"presstv-us-seeking-to-inflict-chaos-in-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-seeking-to-inflict-chaos-in-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018US seeking to inflict chaos in Middle East\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The United States has been trying to create chaos in the Middle East in order to keep its occupying forces in the region, says a commentator. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Thursday that \u201cwhenever\/wherever US interferes, chaos, repression and resentment follow.\u201d Zarif&#8217;s\u00a0 tweet\u00a0was a\u00a0response to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo\u2019s claims that \u201cwhen America retreats, chaos often follows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>David Yaghoubian, professor of history at the CSU San Bernardino University, told Press TV on Friday that the US has been \u201cwaging war against Middle Eastern countries\u201d in a bid to \u201cbring about chaos\u201d and weaken their resistance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTurning [the Middle East] into a cauldron basically means creating such chaos and destabilization that no Middle Eastern nation on its own will have the potential to resist American and or Israeli power,\u201d Yaghoubian said.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThrough implementing a divide and rule strategy, the United&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/01\/11\/585457\/US-Middle-East-Iran-Choas\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has been trying to create chaos in the Middle East in order to keep its occupying forces in the region, says a commentator. Iran&#8217;s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Thursday that \u201cwhenever\/wherever US interferes, chaos, repression and resentment follow.\u201d Zarif&#8217;s\u00a0 tweet\u00a0was a\u00a0response to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo\u2019s claims [&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-392451","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\/392451","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=392451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}