{"id":1329,"date":"2006-01-19T21:22:22","date_gmt":"2006-01-20T03:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2006-01-19T21:29:03","modified_gmt":"2006-01-20T03:29:03","slug":"surprise-syria-backs-a-nuclear-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1329","title":{"rendered":"Surprise! Syria Backs a Nuclear Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh wait, no, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2006\/01\/20\/wiran20.xml&#038;sSheet=\/news\/2006\/01\/20\/ixworld.html\">this<\/a> isn&#8217;t a surprise at all.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Syria yesterday backed Iran in its nuclear confrontation with the West as their leaders met in Damascus in a defiant show of solidarity.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, welcomed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and said the Iranian leader had the right to acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. In turn, Mr Ahmadinejad asserted his host&#8217;s right to freedom from foreign interference.<\/p>\n<p>Both men face confontations with the United Nations Security Council.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Both men also face the danger of a virus called democracy growing between them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh wait, no, this isn&#8217;t a surprise at all. Syria yesterday backed Iran in its nuclear confrontation with the West as their leaders met in Damascus in a defiant show of solidarity. The Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, welcomed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and said the Iranian leader had the right to acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-central-asia","category-middle-east","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}