{"id":230744,"date":"2016-03-10T19:58:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T19:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/obama-using-iranophobia-to-boost-democratic-support-analyst\/"},"modified":"2016-03-10T19:58:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T19:58:49","slug":"obama-using-iranophobia-to-boost-democratic-support-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/obama-using-iranophobia-to-boost-democratic-support-analyst\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama using Iranophobia to boost Democratic support: Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"74\">\n<p><strong>US President Barack Obama\u2019s extension of a so-called national emergency against Iran for another year is a \u201cpsyop\u201d to garner more support for the Democratic Party in the upcoming presidential election, says an American analyst and former US Army member.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Obama\u2019s move comes despite the recent nuclear deal that was reached between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries in July last year and went into effect in January.<\/p>\n<p>The executive order means non-nuclear US sanctions against Iran will remain in effect for at least another year.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Press TV on Thursday, Scott Bennett, a former US Army psychological warfare officer, attributed Obama\u2019s move to the current political season in the US, where the Democratic Party needs to boost its image among American voters to ensure that Obama\u2019s successor will also be a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the United States we have had a culture and a national consciousness largely that has been developed for the last&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/03\/10\/455023\/Obama-Iran-Sanctions-JCPOA-Bennett\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Barack Obama\u2019s extension of a so-called national emergency against Iran for another year is a \u201cpsyop\u201d to garner more support for the Democratic Party in the upcoming presidential election, says an American analyst and former US Army member. Obama\u2019s move comes despite the recent nuclear deal that was reached between Iran and the [&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-230744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}