{"id":382549,"date":"2018-10-26T22:34:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T21:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-hezbollah-is-an-anti-terror-group-scholar\/"},"modified":"2018-10-26T22:34:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T21:34:53","slug":"presstv-hezbollah-is-an-anti-terror-group-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-hezbollah-is-an-anti-terror-group-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Hezbollah is an anti-terror group: Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Hezbollah is an anti-terror group which is fighting to prevent the Zionist terrorists from continuing to overrun the territory that does not belong to them in the Middle East, an American scholar says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kevin Barrett, an author, journalist and radio host with a Ph.D. in Islamic and Arabic Studies, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Friday after the Trump administration imposed a new round of sanctions on the Lebanese resistance movement.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctions targeted individuals and international organizations that do business with the group.<\/p>\n<p>Trump signed the sanctions legislation \u2013 known as the Hezbollah\u00a0International Financing Prevention Amendments Act 2018 \u2013 against the resistance group on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the past year we have levied the highest sanctions ever imposed on Hezbollah \u2013 in a single year, by far. Just a few moments ago, I signed legislation imposing even more hard-hitting sanctions on Hezbollah to further&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/26\/578182\/Hezbollah-fighting-to-prevent-Zionist-terrorists-from-overrunning-Mideast\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hezbollah is an anti-terror group which is fighting to prevent the Zionist terrorists from continuing to overrun the territory that does not belong to them in the Middle East, an American scholar says. Kevin Barrett, an author, journalist and radio host with a Ph.D. in Islamic and Arabic Studies, made the remarks in an interview [&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-382549","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\/382549","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=382549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}