{"id":328482,"date":"2017-10-01T08:32:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T07:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/iran-forging-a-new-path-in-spite-of-the-uss-best-efforts-at-sabotage\/"},"modified":"2017-10-01T08:32:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T07:32:45","slug":"iran-forging-a-new-path-in-spite-of-the-uss-best-efforts-at-sabotage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/iran-forging-a-new-path-in-spite-of-the-uss-best-efforts-at-sabotage\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Forging a New Path in Spite of the US\u2019s Best Efforts at Sabotage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Prior to his election as President of the United States Donald Trump had been highly critical of the agreement reached between China, France, Germany, Russia, the US, the UK and Iran and the European Union aimed at preventing Iran from enriching uranium to the point where is could manufacture nuclear weapons. \u00a0He repeatedly referred to the agreement as \u201ca horrible agreement\u201d, the \u201cstupidest deal of all time\u201d and \u201cthe worst deal ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At his now notorious address to the United Nations General Assembly in September he extended his attack to Iran itself, calling it a \u201ccorrupt dictatorship\u201d and a nation \u201con a path of poverty, bloodshed and terror.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of the delegates present treated such overblown rhetoric with the contempt it deserved.\u00a0 Only Israel\u2019s Benjamin Netanyahu voiced support, as one would expect given Israel\u2019s hostility to the Iranian government and Netanyahu\u2019s cartoonish presentation to the UN some years earlier, as well as more serious actions such as the assassination of Iranian scientists and electronic warfare through the Stuxnet virus.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and Netanyahu are not alone among the neocon establishment in voicing what Iran\u2019s President Rouhani, a Ph.D. from Scotland and democratically re-elected in a landslide earlier this year, called \u201c\u201dignorant, absurd and hateful rhetoric.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In June of this year Trump\u2019s UN Ambassador Nikki Haley addressed the influential American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/09\/iran-forging-a-new-path-in-spite-of-the-uss-best-efforts-at-sabotage\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to his election as President of the United States Donald Trump had been highly critical of the agreement reached between China, France, Germany, Russia, the US, the UK and Iran and the European Union aimed at preventing Iran from enriching uranium to the point where is could manufacture nuclear weapons. \u00a0He repeatedly referred to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-328482","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\/328482","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\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}