{"id":382494,"date":"2018-10-26T14:27:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T13:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-leaving-inf-very-soon-sparking-new-arms-race-russia\/"},"modified":"2018-10-26T14:27:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T13:27:19","slug":"presstv-us-leaving-inf-very-soon-sparking-new-arms-race-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-leaving-inf-very-soon-sparking-new-arms-race-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US leaving INF very soon, sparking new arms race: Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the United States is determined to leave a landmark Cold War-era nuclear arms control treaty with Moscow, despite warnings that the move will trigger a new nuclear arms race.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lavrov said on Friday that the Trump administration has made its decision and will leave the treaty &#8220;very soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump has said that Washington would withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), which was signed towards the end of Cold War in 1987 by then President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also vowed to rebuild his country&#8217;s nuclear arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>The treaty \u2013 seen as a milestone in ending the Cold War arms race between the two superpowers \u2013 banned ground-launch nuclear missiles with ranges from 500 kilometers to 5,500 kilometers and led to the elimination of nearly 2,700 short- and medium-range missiles.<\/p>\n<p>Trump cited Russia\u2019s \u201cviolations\u201d of the deal&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/26\/578143\/Russia-US-INF-treaty\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the United States is determined to leave a landmark Cold War-era nuclear arms control treaty with Moscow, despite warnings that the move will trigger a new nuclear arms race. Lavrov said on Friday that the Trump administration has made its decision and will leave the treaty &#8220;very soon.&#8221; US [&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-382494","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\/382494","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=382494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}