{"id":397226,"date":"2019-02-25T21:12:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T20:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-plans-total-ban-on-lebanons-hezbollah\/"},"modified":"2019-02-25T21:12:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T20:12:08","slug":"presstv-uk-plans-total-ban-on-lebanons-hezbollah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-plans-total-ban-on-lebanons-hezbollah\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-UK plans total ban on Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The British government is to impose a full ban on activities of the Lebanese Resistance Movement Hezbollah as London becomes increasingly irritated by the group\u2019s political and military success in the Middle East.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>UK Home Secretary (interior minister) Sajid Javid said on Monday that the government will designate the entire\u00a0Hezbollah organization\u00a0as a terrorist entity as of Friday subject to the approval of the parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Javid, an extreme right-wing politician of the Pakistani origin, said the UK government was no longer able to maintain a distinction between Hezbollah\u2019s political and military activities and thus will include the group\u2019s political unit in its blacklist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHezbollah is continuing in its attempts to destabilize the fragile situation in the Middle East \u2013 and we are no longer able to distinguish between their already banned military wing and the political party,\u201d said Javid, adding, \u201cBecause of this, I have taken&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/02\/25\/589515\/UK-Hezbollah-ban-Javid-announcement\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British government is to impose a full ban on activities of the Lebanese Resistance Movement Hezbollah as London becomes increasingly irritated by the group\u2019s political and military success in the Middle East. UK Home Secretary (interior minister) Sajid Javid said on Monday that the government will designate the entire\u00a0Hezbollah organization\u00a0as a terrorist entity as [&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-397226","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\/397226","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=397226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}