{"id":393417,"date":"2019-01-19T12:23:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T11:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-irans-fm-zarif-on-bolton-same-bull-same-bully\/"},"modified":"2019-01-19T12:23:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T11:23:55","slug":"presstv-irans-fm-zarif-on-bolton-same-bull-same-bully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-irans-fm-zarif-on-bolton-same-bull-same-bully\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Iran&#8217;s FM Zarif on Bolton: &#8216;Same bull, same bully&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has hit out at US National Security Advisor John Bolton\u2019s anti-Iran stance, saying the Iran hawk has long supported a military attack against the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a play on the viral 10-year challenge meme on social media, Zarif mocked Bolton\u2019s calls for a strike on Iran, posting on his twitter account the titles of two separate articles from 2009 and 2019, in which Bolton urged attack on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/07\/01\/AR2009070103020.html?noredirect=on\">the first article<\/a>, published by The Washington Post on July 2, 2009, Bolton advised Israel to use \u201cmilitary force\u201d against\u00a0what he had said was\u00a0\u201cTehran\u2019s nuclear weapons program,\u201d repeating Washington\u2019s claims that Iran\u2019s nuclear activities had a military aspect. The second article reflected\u00a0a revelation by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/white-house-sought-options-to-strike-iran-11547375404\"><em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a> last Sunday that showed\u00a0Bolton had asked the Pentagon in September to prepare military options for an attacking on Iran.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Journal<\/em> reported that the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/01\/19\/586188\/Iran-United-States-Zarif-10Year-Challenge-john-Bolton\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has hit out at US National Security Advisor John Bolton\u2019s anti-Iran stance, saying the Iran hawk has long supported a military attack against the country. In a play on the viral 10-year challenge meme on social media, Zarif mocked Bolton\u2019s calls for a strike on Iran, posting on his [&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-393417","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\/393417","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=393417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}