{"id":393935,"date":"2019-01-24T00:23:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T23:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-in-reverse-gear-on-iran-summit-as-boycott-widens\/"},"modified":"2019-01-24T00:23:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T23:23:57","slug":"presstv-us-in-reverse-gear-on-iran-summit-as-boycott-widens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-in-reverse-gear-on-iran-summit-as-boycott-widens\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-&#8216;US in reverse gear on Iran summit as boycott widens&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The Unites States may call off\u00a0a\u00a0controversial anti-Iran summit in Poland scheduled for next month as Washington is facing a setback\u00a0due to a widening\u00a0international boycott of the gathering, a report says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Jonathan Cohen, the acting US ambassador to the United Nations, told the UN Security Council on Tuesday that the upcoming meeting in the Polish capital of Warsaw,\u00a0jointly hosted by the US State Department, wasn\u2019t a \u201cvenue to demonize or attack Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some European diplomats said US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo may be forced to cancel the conference at the last minute due to \u201clow attendance\u201d or US allies\u2019 refusal to send high-level officials, <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cohen went as far as calling the meeting a \u201cglobal brainstorming session\u201d with an agenda that revolved around cybersecurity, extremism and humanitarian aid to people trapped in conflicts in Syria and Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>The American envoy insisted that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/01\/23\/586617\/US-Iran-summit-Poland-Cohen-Russia-EU\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Unites States may call off\u00a0a\u00a0controversial anti-Iran summit in Poland scheduled for next month as Washington is facing a setback\u00a0due to a widening\u00a0international boycott of the gathering, a report says. Jonathan Cohen, the acting US ambassador to the United Nations, told the UN Security Council on Tuesday that the upcoming meeting in the Polish capital [&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-393935","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\/393935","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=393935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}