{"id":3279,"date":"2008-04-30T09:14:20","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T08:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/politics\/rice-hamas-irans-proxy-warrior\/3279\/"},"modified":"2008-04-30T09:14:26","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T08:14:26","slug":"rice-hamas-irans-proxy-warrior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/politics\/rice-hamas-irans-proxy-warrior\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice: Hamas Iran&#8217;s proxy warrior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/rice-iran.jpg\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"rice-iran.jpg\" title=\"rice-iran.jpg\" \/>Press TV<\/a> | US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has characterized Palestinian Hamas fighters as the \u201cproxy warriors\u201d for the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Rice made the statement in a speech to the American Jewish Committee in Washington that underscored growing US concerns about Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>The US secretary of state claimed that Iran is not just a threat to the Palestinian territories, but also in Lebanon, Iraq and even in Afghanistan, AFP said.<\/p>\n<p>Rice vowed to pursue US efforts to isolate Hamas which she said refused to renounce violence, recognize Israel&#8217;s right to exist and respect all previous Palestinian agreements with Israel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But perhaps of deepest concern, the leaders of Hamas are increasingly serving as the proxy warriors of an Iranian regime that is destabilizing the region, seeking a nuclear capability and proclaiming its desire to destroy Israel,&#8221; Rice told the group&#8217;s annual meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The Untied States accuses Iran of providing military support to the Hamas movement, a claim that has been recurrently dismissed by Iranian officials. The Islamic Republic condemns the Israeli regime&#8217;s atrocities in Palestine and insists that its support for the Palestinian nation is only moral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press TV | US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has characterized Palestinian Hamas fighters as the \u201cproxy warriors\u201d for the Islamic Republic. Rice made the statement in a speech to the American Jewish Committee in Washington that underscored growing US concerns about Tehran. The US secretary of state claimed that Iran is not just a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1616],"tags":[49],"class_list":{"0":"post-3279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"category-usa-news","8":"tag-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279","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=3279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}