{"id":382373,"date":"2018-10-25T18:06:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T17:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-pipe-bombs-a-political-stunt-staged-by-democrats\/"},"modified":"2018-10-25T18:06:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T17:06:56","slug":"presstv-pipe-bombs-a-political-stunt-staged-by-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-pipe-bombs-a-political-stunt-staged-by-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018Pipe bombs\u2019 a political stunt staged by Democrats?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A series of suspected \u201cpipe bombs\u201d sent to prominent US Democrats and the news outlet CNN appears to be desperate political stunt staged by Democrats to gain sympathy before the midterm elections, American academic and political commentator James Henry Fetzer says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fetzer made the remarks in an email interview with Press TV on Thursday when asked whether the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2018\/10\/24\/577948\/Turkey-CIA-Khashoggi-Saudi-Arabia\">killing <\/a>of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi and Republican President Donald Trump\u2019s divisive rhetoric have any links with the suspected bombs allegedly sent to Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe death of Jamal Khashoggi, a resident of the United States and columnist for <em>The Washington Post<\/em>, appears to have been a brutal but clumsy assassination of a prominent critic of the Saudi regime, including of the Crown Prince,\u201d Fetzer said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKhashoggi appears to have been apprehended upon his entrance into the Saudi Consulate in Ankara, to have spoken by phone with the Crown Prince and then been&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/25\/578072\/Pipe-bombs-a-political-stunt-staged-by-Democrats-before-midterm-elections\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series of suspected \u201cpipe bombs\u201d sent to prominent US Democrats and the news outlet CNN appears to be desperate political stunt staged by Democrats to gain sympathy before the midterm elections, American academic and political commentator James Henry Fetzer says. Fetzer made the remarks in an email interview with Press TV on Thursday when [&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-382373","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\/382373","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=382373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}